The essays in this collection focus on eleven of the founders of the American republic and their opinions and thinking about the proper role of religion in publ

Thirteen essays written by leading scholars explore the impact of a rich variety of religious traditions on the political thought of America's founders.

No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political disc

A balanced and lively look at the role of religion between colonization and the 1840s.

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that