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Book Virginia Evangelicals and the American Revolution

Download or read book Virginia Evangelicals and the American Revolution written by William Jennings Terman and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wellspring of Liberty

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  • Author : John A. Ragosta
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-05-19
  • ISBN : 0199779929
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Wellspring of Liberty written by John A. Ragosta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom. This profound transformation, as John A. Ragosta shows in this book, arose not from a new-found cultural tolerance. Rather, as the Revolution approached, Virginia's political establishment needed the support of the religious dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, for the mobilization effort. Dissenters seized this opportunity to insist on freedom of religion in return for their mobilization. Their demands led to a complex and extended negotiation in which the religious establishment slowly and grudgingly offered just enough reforms to maintain the crucial support of the dissenters. After the war, when dissenters' support was no longer needed, the establishment leaders sought to recapture control, but found they had seriously miscalculated: wartime negotiations had politicized the dissenters. As a result dissenters' demands for the separation of church and state triumphed over the establishment's efforts and Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was adopted. Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal, and previously underappreciated, role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today.

Book Presbyterians  Baptists  and the Making of a Slave Society in Virginia  1740 1820

Download or read book Presbyterians Baptists and the Making of a Slave Society in Virginia 1740 1820 written by Jewel L. Spangler and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Awakening in Virginia  1740 1790

Download or read book The Great Awakening in Virginia 1740 1790 written by Wesley Marsh Gewehr and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virginia in the American Revolution

Download or read book Virginia in the American Revolution written by Richard A. Rutyna and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anglican Church in Virginia During the American Revolution

Download or read book The Anglican Church in Virginia During the American Revolution written by Hope Henry Lumpkin and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Awakening

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  • Author : Thomas S. Kidd
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300148259
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book The Great Awakening written by Thomas S. Kidd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield as well as many previously unknown preachers, prophets, and penitents.The Great Awakening helped create the evangelical movement, which heavily emphasized the individual’s experience of salvation and the Holy Spirit’s work in revivals. By giving many evangelicals radical notions of the spiritual equality of all people, the revivals helped breed the democratic style that would come to characterize the American republic. Kidd carefully separates the positions of moderate supporters of the revivals from those of radical supporters, and he delineates the objections of those who completely deplored the revivals and their wildly egalitarian consequences. The battles among these three camps, the author shows, transformed colonial America and ultimately defined the nature of the evangelical movement.

Book The Established Church in Virginia and the Revolution

Download or read book The Established Church in Virginia and the Revolution written by George MacLaren Brydon and published by Richmond, Va. : Richmond Press. This book was released on 1930 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Church and Clergy in the American Revolution

Download or read book Church and Clergy in the American Revolution written by Lester Douglas Joyce and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Struggle for Religious Freedom in Virginia

Download or read book The Struggle for Religious Freedom in Virginia written by William Taylor Thom and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virginians Reborn

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  • Author : Jewel L. Spangler
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780813926797
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Virginians Reborn written by Jewel L. Spangler and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, the book chronicles a dual process of rebirth, as Virginians simultaneously formed a republic and became evangelical Christians.Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies

Book The Politics of War

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  • Author : Michael A. McDonnell
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0807831085
  • Pages : 565 pages

Download or read book The Politics of War written by Michael A. McDonnell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War often unites a society behind a common cause, but the notion of diverse populations all rallying together to fight on the same side disguises the complex social forces that come into play in the midst of perceived unity.

Book The American Revolution

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  • Author : Frances H. Kennedy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-05-13
  • ISBN : 0199324247
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book The American Revolution written by Frances H. Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Congress commissioned the National Park Service to compile a list of sites and landmarks connected with the American Revolution that it deemed vital to preserve for future generations. Some of these sites are well known--Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Fort Ticonderoga--and in no danger of being lost; others less so-- Blackstock's Plantation in South Carolina or Bryan's Station in Kentucky--and more vulnerable. But all are central to the story of our nation's fight for independence. From battlefields to encampments, meeting houses to museums, these places offer us a chance to rediscover the remarkable men and women who founded this nation and to recognize the relevance of not just what they did, but where they did it. The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook takes readers to nearly 150 of these sites, providing an overview of the Revolution through an exploration of the places where American independence was articulated, fought for, and eventually secured. Beginning with the Boston Common, first occupied by British troops in 1768, and closing with Fraunces Tavern in New York, where George Washington bid farewell to his officers on December 4, 1783, Kennedy takes readers on a tour of the most significant places of Revolutionary history. Accompanied by illuminating excerpts and essays from some of the foremost scholars in the field, including David McCullough, Barbara Tuchman, David Hackett Fischer, Eric Foner, and John Ferling, the entries move in a roughly chronological order from the pre-Revolutionary years up through 1787. Taken together, the combination of site, essay, and excerpt provides rich context and overview, giving a sense of the major figures and events as well as the course of the Revolution, and cover topics ranging from the Boston Tea Party to the frontier wars. The guide is encyclopedic in scope and covers a wide geographical sweep. Accompanied by historical maps, as well as a number of illuminating primary documents including the Declaration of Independence and letters from John Adams and George Washington, it offers a comprehensive picture of how the Revolutionary War unfolded on American soil, and also points readers to the best writing on the subject in the last fifty years. The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook is an essential companion for anyone interested in the story and history of our nation's founding.

Book Soldiers of God

Download or read book Soldiers of God written by Eugene Franklin Williams and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: