The Religion-Supported State: Piety and Politics in Early National New England, 1st Edition eBook

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Between 1776 and 1850, the people, politicians, and clergy of New England transformed the relationship between church and state. They did not simply replace their religious establishments with voluntary churches and organizations. Instead, as they collided over disestablishment, Sunday laws, and antislavery, they built the foundation of what the author describes as a religion-supported state. Religious tolerance and pluralism coexisted in the religion-supported state with religious anxiety and controversy. Questions of religious liberty were shaped by public debates among evangelicals, Unitarians, Universalists, deists, and others about the moral implications of religious truth and error. The author traces the shifting, situational political alliances they constructed to protect the moral core of their competing truths. New England’s religion-supported state still resonates in the United States in the twenty-first century.

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The Religion-Supported State: Piety and Politics in Early National New England 1st Edition is written by Nathan S. Rives and published by Lexington Books. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Religion-Supported State are 9781793655257, 1793655251 and the print ISBNs are 9781793655240, 1793655243.