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The Religion-Supported State

Piety and Politics in Early National New England
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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.
Nathan S. Rives is instructor in the Department of History at Weber State University.
Chapter 1. The Ghost of Constantine: Dissenters and State-Supported Religious Error Chapter 2. The Spirit of the Pilgrims: State-Supported Religion in New England Chapter 3. The Politics of Religious Authority: Reason, Revelation, and the Problem of Rationalism Chapter 4. The Politics of Moral Reasoning: Heaven and Hell, and the Morality In-Between Chapter 5. The Partisan Agenda: Federalists, Republicans, and Religion Chapter 6. The Unitarian Paradox: The Liberal Defense of State-Supported Religion in Massachusetts Chapter 7. The Voluntary Solution: Civil Society and the Religion-Supported State Chapter 8. The Sunday Police: Sabbatarians, Anti-Sabbatarians, and Voluntary Religion Chapter 9. The Antislavery Dilemma: The Moral Crisis of the Religion-Supported State
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