Holmes, David L.

The religion of the Founding Fathers / David L. Holmes. - Charlottesville, Va. : Ann Arbor : Ash Lawn-Highland ; Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2003. - 156 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-147) and index.

Religion in the American colonies in 1770: The sects -- Tolerant Pennsylvania -- The mainline churches -- The rise of evangelical Christianity -- The Anglican tradition and the Virginia founding fathers -- The enlightenment religion of Deism -- The religious views of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe -- The past is a foreign country.

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Deism--United States.
Founding Fathers of the United States--Religious life.


United States--Religion--To 1800.

BL 2747.4 / .H65 2003