This dissertation intends to situate Cotton Mather in the Early Enlightenment, to add
observations concerning his reception in America and to overcome the image of him as a …

This article explores religion and politics on Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier through
two key events, the Paxton Riots and the Whiskey Rebellion. The author argues religion …

From the very founding of the United States, education's actual influence on American
society has not measured up to Americans' belief in education as a vehicle of meritocracy …

When conjuring an image of “settlers” in the Holy Land, one hardly envisions vast numbers
of European and North American Evangelical Protestants. Yet this is precisely the picture set …

This essay places one of the most important events of recent Christian history, the First Great
Awakening, into context with another, seemingly unrelated experience: the end of Scottish …

Black Evangelicals were common in the antebellum period, as the Evangelical tradition of
this time was the dominant theological voice in American Christianity. The dominance of the …

This dissertation explores the ways in which religious practices and religious conversions
became important sites of cultural negotiation between American Indians of southern New …

Rebecca Dickinson's powerful voice, captured through excerpts from the pages of her
journal, allows colonial and revolutionary-era New England to come alive. Dickinson's life …

This dissertation is a historical study of the relationship between English-speaking
Moravians and Evangelicals between 1740 and 1755. Moravians and Evangelicals, while …

Chartres. Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville à treize ans, et il vient d'avoir une révélation.
Un de ses camarades de classe avec du talent et des idées lui avait fait rencontrer la …