Religion and the Founding of the American Republic » (1st Edition)

JAMES H. HUTSON is chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. His most recent book is The Sister Republics: Switzerland and the United States from 1776 to the Present (1991). JON BUTLER's most recent book is Awash in a Sea of Faith (1990).

A balanced and lively look at the role of religion between colonization and the 1840s.

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As a companion piece for a Library of Congress exhibit which opened June 1998, chronicles the settlement of the North American colonies as a religious refuge through 1835<-->when Tocqueville wrote that Americans consider religion "indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions." The amply illustrated narrative considers the early experience of diverse religious denominations in the context of the First Amendment. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.