In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps eve

Historians have debated how the clergy's support for political resistance during the American Revolution should be understood, often looking to influence outsid

Religion no longer plays a dominant role in the everyday consciousness of modern Western society. Few people recognize the underlying role of religious beliefs

Is America a Christian nation? This question has loomed large in American culture since the Puritans arrived on American shores in the early seventeenth century

Early American advocates of freedom did not believe in religious liberty in spite of their Christianity, but explicitly because of their individual faith in Chr