God of Liberty
Subtitle: a religious history of the American Revolution
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780465002351
Table of contents: title: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God": religion and the American Revolution; title: "No king but King Jesus": the Great Awakening and the first American Revolution; title: "The pope, the devil, and all their emissaries": the bishop controversy and Quebec Act; title: "Victory over the beast": the evangelical roots of revolution; title: "A Christian Sparta": virtue and the American Revolution; title: "A time of war": Chaplains, virtue, and providence; title: "God has made of one blood all nations of men": equality by creation; title: "The bands of wickedness": slavery and the American Revolution; title: "One God, three gods, no god or twenty gods": disestablishing America's state churches; title: "Saving this land": Revivals and the era of American revolution; title: "If men were angels": virtue, freedom, and the Constitution; title: "Jefferson--and no God!": the election of 1800 and the triumph of religious liberty; title: "Freedom sees religion as its companion": faith and American civil society