[Rezension von: Carté, Katherine, Religion and the American Revolution]

In Religion and the American Revolution, historian Katherine Carté interprets changing relationships in religion between Britain and its American colonies from the Toleration Act (1689) and the Acts of Union (1706-1707) to the 1790s through the concept of "imperial Protestantism," a politi...

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Auteur principal: Marini, Stephen A. 1946- (Auteur)
Collaborateurs: Carté, Katherine (Antécédent bibliographique)
Type de support: Électronique Review
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Oxford University Press 2022
Dans: A journal of church and state
Année: 2022, Volume: 64, Numéro: 2, Pages: 352-354
Compte rendu de:Religion and the American Revolution (Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2021) (Marini, Stephen A.)
Religion and the American Revolution (Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2021) (Marini, Stephen A.)
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Religion / Révolution américaine / Politique / USA
RelBib Classification:CA Christianisme
KBQ Amérique du Nord
ZC Politique en général
Sujets non-standardisés:B Compte-rendu de lecture
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Résumé:In Religion and the American Revolution, historian Katherine Carté interprets changing relationships in religion between Britain and its American colonies from the Toleration Act (1689) and the Acts of Union (1706-1707) to the 1790s through the concept of "imperial Protestantism," a political theology that defined the British Empire as a Protestant political and religious project. Carté tells this long and complex story from the perspective of the Empire’s religious constitution and its government in the London metropole, an orientation embodied by elite figures like William Legge (1731-1801)—2nd Earl of Dartmouth, a celebrated evangelical Anglican, patron of the colonial college that still bears his name, and Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1772 to 1775—who is featured in the book. This angle of vision, following recent scholarly emphasis on the transatlantic dimension of colonial American culture, marks a refreshing change from decades of debate about whether or not religion played a causal role in the Revolution. Carté reverses the vector, arguing that the American Revolution caused a fundamental alteration of religion’s relationship to the state in both the new nation and the old empire.
ISSN:2040-4867
Contient:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac014