The religion of the Founding Fathers - Holmes, David L. (David Lynn) (Charlottesville, Va. : Ash Lawn-Highland ; Ann Arbor : Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2003)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-147) and index.
Keywords: Deism -- United States; Founding Fathers of the United States -- Religious life; United States -- Religion -- To 1800.