The origins of American religious nationalism The powers of the earth : secularism and American nationalism The songs of a nation : the Connecticut wits and the new English empire To raise a holy people wear no slouched hat : the Methodist settlement of the frontier Sovereignty and salvation on the frontier of the early republic The love of order and righteous laws : early national liberals and the missions movement A complete chain of communication : religious literature and Protestant nation building A monster and the wandering savage : the resolution of frontier revivalism and national evangelism