Faith Of The Founders: Religion And The New Nation 1776-1826
Stock No: WW92090X
Faith Of The Founders: Religion And The New Nation   1776-1826  -     By: Edwin S. Gaustad

Faith Of The Founders: Religion And The New Nation 1776-1826

Baylor University Press / 2011 / Paperback

In Stock
Stock No: WW92090X

Buy Item Our Price$43.74
In Stock
Quantity:
Stock No: WW92090X
Baylor University Press / 2011 / Paperback
Quantity:

Add To Cart

or checkout with

Add To Wishlist
Quantity:


Add To Cart

or checkout with

Wishlist

Product Close-up
This product is not available for expedited shipping.
* This product is available for shipment only to the USA.
Others Also Purchased (15)
Select this Item Product Title/Author Availability Price Quantity
$28.80
In Stock
Our Price$28.80
Retail: $32.00
Add To Cart
$28.80
$56.20
In Stock
Our Price$56.20
Add To Cart
$56.20
$31.50
In Stock
Our Price$31.50
Retail: $35.00
Add To Cart
$31.50
$32.40
In Stock
Our Price$32.40
Retail: $36.00
Add To Cart
$32.40
$15.30
In Stock
Our Price$15.30
Retail: $17.00
Add To Cart
$15.30
$112.49
In Stock
Our Price$112.49
Add To Cart
$112.49
$15.49
In Stock
Our Price$15.49
Retail: $24.99
Add To Cart
$15.49
$15.95
In Stock
Our Price$15.95
Add To Cart
$15.95

Product Description

Follow the lives and ideas of our Founding Fathers from the Revolutionary War until the beginning of the Civil War. America has a tradition steeped both in religous liberty and a distinctly Christian beginning where the choice of religion was only between denominations. This relationship between church and state, people and government is here explored, following the the ever-morphing trail of ideas, communities, daily life and the American people. 196 pages, indexed.

Product Information

Title: Faith Of The Founders: Religion And The New Nation 1776-1826
By: Edwin S. Gaustad
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 196
Vendor: Baylor University Press
Publication Date: 2011
Dimensions: 9.0 X 6.5 X 0.6 (inches)
Weight: 9 ounces
ISBN: 1932792090
ISBN-13: 9781932792096
Stock No: WW92090X

Publisher's Description

In the lauded Faith of the Founders, revered historian Edwin Gaustad provides a careful consideration of the developing relationship between religion and the state after the American Revolution. With concise focus on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and John Adams, Gaustad identifies seven varying—sometimes contrary—perspectives on religion that guided the nation's founders. Faith of the Founders masterfully shows how these figures possessed an intuitive understanding of religion that helped nourish a young country. Repackaged for a new generation of readers and with a new foreword by Randall Balmer, this brief but insightful book offers a look into the founding fathers' genius—and points to a way forward through the ideological boundaries that threaten to upend the daily doings of American government today.

Author Bio

Edwin S. Gaustad is emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Riverside. He is a noted church historian and the author of over a dozen books.

Randall Balmer is John Phillips Professor in Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books.

Editorial Reviews

As clear and serene a guide to the mixture of religious and political events at the time of the nation's founding as we are likely to get.


Based on James Sprunt lectures delivered at Union Theological Seminary (Richmond), this beautifully written book shows the complexity of church-state relations in the early republic.


Historically informative and as relevant as today's headlines. The author brings to these sensitive chapters all the wisdom and sophistication and that have marked him as a premier historian of the American religious experience.

Ask a Question

Author/Artist Review