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The Origins of American Religious Nationalism Sam Haselby (Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, American University of Beirut)

The Origins of American Religious Nationalism By Sam Haselby (Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, American University of Beirut)

The Origins of American Religious Nationalism by Sam Haselby (Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, American University of Beirut)

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By identifying a historic fight within Anglo-American Protestantism, and how it related to major contemporary political developments in the early American republic, Sam Haselby explains the origins of the distinct language and means of combining political and religious authority that characterizes American nationalism.

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The Origins of American Religious Nationalism by Sam Haselby (Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, American University of Beirut)

Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality. The book shows how, in the early American republic, a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture, leading to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism. Following U.S. independence, the new republic faced vital challenges, including a vast and unique continental colonization project undertaken without (in the centuries-old European senses of the terms) either "a church" or "a state." Amid this crisis, two distinct Protestant movements arose: one, a popular and rambunctious frontier revivalism, and the other a nationalist, corporate missionary movement dominated by New England and Northeastern elites. The former heralded the birth of popular American Protestantism, while the latter marked the advent of systematic Protestant missionary activity in the West. The world-historic economic and territorial growth that accelerated in the early American republic, and the complexity of its political life, gave both movements unusual opportunity for innovation and influence. The Origins of American Religious Nationalism explores the competition between them in relation to major contemporary political developments. More specifically, political democratization, large-scale immigration and unruly migration, fears of political disintegration, the rise of American capitalism and American slavery, and the need to nationalize the frontier, all shaped, and were shaped by, this contest. The book follows these developments, focusing mostly on religion and the frontier, from before the American Revolution to the rise of Andrew Jackson. The approach helps explains many important general developments in American history, including why Indian removal took place when and how it did, why the political power of the Southern planter class could be sustained, and, above all, how Andrew Jackson was able to create the first full-blown expression of American religious nationalism.

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ambitious and thought-provoking book that challenges common understandings of the earliest stages of American nationalism. * Carl C. Creason, Reading Religion *
Haselby's elaboration of the meaningful conflict between popular frontier evangelicalism and the elite, northeastern missionizing establishment is an important contribution. * Seth Perry, Princeton University, The Journal of Religion *
In this revelatory narrative, contrasting the competing visions of itinerant frontier preachers and institutionally-based New England evangelicals, Haselby brilliantly illuminates flashpoints of political as well as religious history. While tracking the progress of American Protestantism toward nondenominationalism and missionary enterprise, he tells a suspenseful political story deeply interwoven with the success of nationalism and dynamically rife with sectional and class tensions. * Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University *
This book provides a fresh, creative, and persuasive account of religion in the early American republic and the relation of religious movements to national politics. It is particularly good on the fierce competition that developed between populist revivalists on the frontier and nationally-minded Christian leaders on the eastern seaboard-and on how that competition led eventually to the national acceptance of slavery. This study is particularly important for charting the impact of religion on politics and vice versa. * Mark Noll, author of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln *
This important book explains how the early United States became a battleground for competing visions of Protestant Christianity. Through incisive analysis of the separation of church and state, competition for souls on the frontier, and the rise of evangelical missions, Sam Haselby shows that the question is not if America was originally a Christian nation, but if it was a nation at all, and whose Christianity would rule. * Adam Rothman, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University *
Although Haselbys story is most relevant to nineteenth-century U.S. history, the legacy of his story again with Trump in mind is far from finished ... Haselby may hold the key to explaining what so far has escaped most scholars and pundits who are still scratching their heads about the 2016 presidential contest namely, Trumps appeal to evangelical voters for whom his flagrant flaunting of Christian morality should be repugnant. * Darryl G. Hart, Politics and the American Soul *

About Sam Haselby (Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, American University of Beirut)

Sam Haselby was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2007-10, a faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo, and the Senior Executive Producer for Al Jazeera America Digital. He is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introduction ; Chapter 1 The Powers of the Earth: Secularism and American Nationalism ; Chapter 2 "The Songs of a Nation": The Connecticut Wits and the New English Empire ; Chapter 3 To Raise a Holy People, Wear No Slouched Hat: The Methodist Settlement of the Frontier ; Chapter 4 Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Early Republic ; Chapter 5 "The Love of Order and Righteous Laws": Early National Liberals and the Missions Movement ; Chapter 6 "A Complete Chain of Communication": Religious Literature and Protestant Nation-Building ; Epilogue-A Monster and the Wandering Savage: The Resolution of Frontier Revivalism and National Evangelism ; Index

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9780199329571
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The Origins of American Religious Nationalism by Sam Haselby (Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, American University of Beirut)
Sam Haselby (Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, American University of Beirut)
Religion in America
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Oxford University Press Inc
2015-05-14
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