Investigates the idea of Civil Religion in the works of canonical thinkers including those, like William Penn, not previously with this concept.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World - Adam Morton & Rachel Hammersley
1. Civil Religion: Two Traditions - Mark Goldie
2. A Mutable Wall of Separation? Reconfiguring Ecclesiastical Civility, Mixed Polity, and Civil and Sacred Matter in Late Elizabethan England - Polly Ha
3. Alexander Leighton and the Erastian fabric of early Stuart Puritanism - Esther Counsell
4. Reading Machiavellian Civil Religion in Early Modern Britain - Charlotte McCallum
5. Republicans and Independents: Debating 'National Religion' in Cromwellian England - John Coffey
6. Henry Stubbe and Civil Religion - Connor Robinson
7. Civil Religion on the Ground: Theory and Practice in Early Pennsylvania - Andrew R. Murphy & Christie L. Maloyed
8. John Locke and Civil Religion - John Marshall
9. Civil Religion and Early Modern Views of the Anglo-Saxon Church - Jacqueline Rose
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