Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order: The English Churches in the Delaware Valley

by Jon Butler

This new edition and update of the seminal study, Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order, questions the assumption that colonial American churches were seedbeds of democratic sentiment merely awaiting the American Revolution to cast off the shackles of both political and religious domination. Jon Butler points out that pre-Revolutionary Americans spoke of themselves as British and replicated familiar British forms in their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817355251
• ISBN13: 9780817355258
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"