Suggestions for Further Reading:

Civil Religion

Albanese, Catherine L. Sons of the Fathers: The Civil Religion of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976.

Bellah, Robert N. The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial. New York: Seabury Press, 1975.

_____, and Hammond, Phillip E. Varieties of Civil Religion. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980.

Bloch, Ruth H. Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, 1756 -- 1800. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Cherry, Conrad, ed. God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Gaustad, Edwin S. Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation. San Francisco: Harper R Row, 1987.

Gribbin, William. The Churches Militant: The War of 1812 and American Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.

Griffin, Keith L. Revolution and Religion: American Revolutionary War and the Reformed Clergy. New York: Paragon House, 1994.

Hatch, Nathan O. The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Herberg, Will. Protestant -- Catholic -- Jew, Rev. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1960.

Hudson, Winthrop S. Nationalism and Religion in America: Concepts of American Identity and Mission. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Jewett, Robert. The Captain America Complex: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1973.

Mead, Sidney E. The Nation with the Soul of a Church. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

_____. The Old Religion in the Brave New World: Reflections on the Relation between Christendom and the Republic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

Moorhead, James H. American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860 -- 1869. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise. God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism. Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press, 1988.

Richey, Russell E., and Jones, Donald G., eds. American Civil Religion. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Shaw, Peter. American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Strout, Cushing. The New Heavens and New Earth: Political Religion in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Tuveson, Ernest Lee. Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Weinberg, Albert K. Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History. 1935. Reprint. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1963.

Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865 -1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Wilson, John F. Public Religion in American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.