""Series""; ""The Origins of American Religious Nationalism""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Powers of the Earth: Secularism and American Nationalism""; ""2 “The Songs of a Nation�: The Connecticut Wits and the New English Empire""; ""3 To Raise a Holy People, Wear No Slouched Hat: The Methodist Settlement of the Frontier""; ""4 Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Early Republic""; ""5 “The Love of Order and Righteous Laws�: Early National Liberals and the Missions Movement""
""6 “A Complete Chain of Communication�: Religious Literature and Protestant Nation-Building""""7 A Monster and the Wandering Savage: The Resolution of Frontier Revivalism and National Evangelism""; ""Index""
Summary
In the half century following independence, a fight within Protestantism, a contest over the colonization of the frontier, reshaped American nationalism in ways that transformed American political culture. Fear of the dynamism and authority of popular, frontier religious movements led elite Northeastern Protestants to found the first missionary organizations in American history. Using technological innovations, the missionary organizations functioned as novel nationbuilding organizations
