Recommended Readings, Freeing Religion

Berkus, Catherine. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Berman, Myron. Richmond’s Jewry, 1769-1976: Shabbat in Shockoe. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1979.

Bond, Edward L. “Anglican Theology and Devotion in James Blair’s Virginia, 1685-1743.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,CIV (Summer 1996):313-340.

Bond, Edward L. Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000.

Bond, Edward L. “Source of Knowledge, Source of Power: The Supernatural World of English Virginia, 1607–1624.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, CVII (2000): 105–138.

Bond, Edward L. Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia: Sermons and Devotional Writings. Introduction and Notes by Edward L. Bond. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books; Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2004.

Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Buckley, Thomas E., S. J.Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1977.

Bullock, Steven C. Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730–1840. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Butterfield, Kevin. “Puritans and Religious Strife in the Early Chesapeake” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, CIX (2001): 5-36.

Dreisbach, Daniel L. Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State. New York: New York University Press. 2002

Earl, Riggins Renal. Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs: God, Self, and Community in the Slave Mind. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.

Egloff, Keith, and Deborah Woodward. First People: The Early Indians of Virginia. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994.

Fall, Ralph E. The Diary of Robert Rose: A View of Virginia by a Scottish Colonial Parson, 1746-1751. Verona, Va.: McClure Press, 1977.

Faull, Katherine M., trans. Moravian ’s Memoirs: Their Related Lives, 1750-1820. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

Fesler, Garrett R. “Interim Report of Excavations at Utopia Quarter (44JC32): An 18th-Century Slave Complex at Kingsmill on the James in James City County, Virginia.” Williamsburg, Va.:James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc., 1996.

Frey, Sylvia R., and Betty Wood. Come Shouting to Zion: African-American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Gaustad, Edwin S., ed. A Documentary History of Religion in America. With revisions by Mark A. Noll. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans Pub., 2003.

Gaustad, Edwin S. Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987. Rev. ed., Neither King Nor Prelate: Religion and the New Nation, 1776–1826. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993.

Gaustad, Edwin S. Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1991.

Gaustad, Edwin S. Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996.

Gillespie, Joanna Bowen. “1795: Martha Laurens Ramsay’s ‘Dark Night of the Soul.’” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. XLVIII (1991):68-92.

Greven, Philip J., Jr. The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-rearing, Religious Experience and the Self in Early America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Gundersen, Joan R. “The Non-Institutional Church: The Religious Role of Women in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, LI (1982), pp. 347–357.

Gundersen, Joan R. “The Search for Good Men: Recruiting Ministers in Colonial Virginia.” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, XLVIII (1979), pp. 453–464.

Hall, Timothy D. Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994.

Heckewelder, John. Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians. Reprint of 1820 edition. New York: Arno Press, 1971.

Hein, David, and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. The Episcopalians. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2004.

Hoffman, Ronald. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Holmes, David L. A Brief History of the Episcopal Church. Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1993.

Holmes, David L. The Religion of the Founding Fathers. Charlottesville, Va. : Ash Lawn-Highland; Ann Arbor : William L. Clements Library, 2003.

Hutson, James H. Forgotten Features of the Founding: The Recovery of Religious Themes in the Early American Republic. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003.

Hutson, James H. Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1998.

Hutson, ed. Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

Ingersoll, Thomas N. “‘Release us out of this Cruell Bondegg’: An Appeal from Virginia in 1723.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., LI (1994), pp. 777–782.

Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Jarratt, Devereux. The Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt: An Autobiography. Foreword by David L. Holmes. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1995.

Jefferson, Thomas. The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Introduction by F. Forrester Church. Afterword by Jaroslav Pelikan. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Longmore, Paul K. “From Supplicants to Constituents.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, CIII (October 1995): 407-442.

Marcus, Jacob Rader,  The Colonial American Jew 1492-1776.3 vols. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970.

Mapp, Alf J., The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America’s Founders Really Believed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.

Mathews, Donald G. Religion in the Old South. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Mbiti, John S. African Religions and Philosophy. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1990.

Mbiti, John S. Introduction to African Religion. Oxford [England]; Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann Educational Books, 1991.

Merritt, Jane T. At the Crossroad: Indians and Empire on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Meyers, Debra. Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Mouw, Richard J., and Mark A. Noll. Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2004.

Nelson, John K. A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690–1776. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 1992.

Noll, Mark A. The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003.

Peterson, Merrill D., and Robert C. Vaughan, eds. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences in American History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Pilmore, Joseph. The Journal of Joseph Pilmore, Methodist Itinerant, for the Years August 1, 1769, to January 2, 1774. With a biographical sketch of Joseph Pilmore by Frank B. Stanger. Frederick E. Maser and Howard T. Maag, eds. Philadelphia: Message Pub. Co., 1969.

Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: “The Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Rountree, Helen C. Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Rowe, Linda. “Freeing Religion.” In Cary Carson, ed. Becoming Americans: Our Struggle To Be Both Free and Equal. Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2004.

Ruether, Rosemary R., and Rosemary S. Keller, eds. Women and Religion in America. Vol. 1. The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 2. The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981.

Ryland, Garnett. The Baptists of Virginia, 1699–1926. Richmond, Va.: Virginia Baptist Board of Missions and Education, 1955.

Sanford, Charles B. The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1984.

Sobel, Mechal. Trabelin’ On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Sobel, Mechal. The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Thomson, Robert Polk. “The Reform of the College of William and Mary, 1763–1780.” American Philosophical Society, Proceedings, CXV (1971), pp. 187–213.

Upton, Dell. Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1986; and review by Joan R. Gundersen, William and Mary Quarterly, XLVI (1989), pp. 379–382.

Wood, Gordon S. “Enlightenment” and “The Celebration of Commerce.” In The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

Wood, Gordon S. “Enlightenment” and “The Celebration of Commerce.” In The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

Woodson, Carter G. The History of the Negro Church. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1992.

Worrall, Jay. The Friendly Virginians: America’s First Quakers. Athens, Ga.: Iberian, 1994.