Revivals and Revolution

Thirty years ago Alan Heimert published his monumental study of religion's relationship to the American Revolution.Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolutioncontradicted the conventional wisdom rooted in Vernon Parrington's 1927Main Currents of American Thoughtand implicitly challenged the more recent interpretation put forward by Heimert's own mentor, Perry Miller. Critics responded vigorously, but their reproofs did not foretell the future of Heimert's argument. Indeed, in the past twenty years a cadreof young scholars assumed either his thesis or method and moved the debate toward the personalities and movements Heimert underscored. Some of today's leading scholars who study connections between the revivals and the Revolution pay homage to Heimert's thought in footnotes if not in the texts themselves. Two social/intellectual movements seemingly at cross-purposes, namely Protestant evangelicalism and the new cultural history, rescued Heimert's work from scathing yet well-placed criticisms to establish its assertions as a leading model for understanding religion's role in the American Revolution

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