William Apess, Pequot Pastor: A Native American ReVisioning of Christian Nationalism in the Early Republic

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dc.contributor.authorGoodnight, Ethan
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-19T17:42:38Z
dc.date.available2022-10-19T17:42:38Z
dc.date.issued2016-04-30
dc.description.abstractIn the opening chapters of his monumental work Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville observed how "the social condition of the Americans is eminently democratic; this [democratic condition] was its character at the foundation of the colonies, and it is still more strongly marked at the present day."1 Tocqueville here is clearly alluding to the settlement of New England by the Pilgrims and Puritans in the 1620s. Tocqueville's narrative of a democratic national heritage established in Protestant faith was one aspect of a greater early Republic campaign to reimagine colonial and revolutionary American history. As a cultural and political project emanating from the revivals of the second Great Awakening, as well as the fears of political division, numbers of lettered men and women were "reinventing" the United States as a Christian nation. Outspoken Christian nationalists like Justice Joseph Story joined Tocqueville in solidifying the Pilgrims and the Puritans as the foundation of religious and political liberty found in antebellum America."en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMark Edwards Matthew Hill Kimberly Rupert Jeffrey Bilbroen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11210/280
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectEthan Goodnighten_US
dc.subjectSpring Arbor Universityen_US
dc.subjectWilliam Apessen_US
dc.subjectChristian Nationalismen_US
dc.subjectPequoten_US
dc.titleWilliam Apess, Pequot Pastor: A Native American ReVisioning of Christian Nationalism in the Early Republicen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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