An age of infidels: the politics of religious controversy in the early United States

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Notes

1. This narrative, which was popularized in Nathan O. Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989), argues that evangelical religious revivalism had a significant effect on the development of American democracy.

2. Christopher Grasso, “Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution,” Journal of American History 95, no. 1 (June 2008): 43–68.