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Further Reading

Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth about History. New York, 1994.

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

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

Gaustad, Edwin S. Faith of out 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.: 1993.

__________. Revival, Revolution, and Religion in Early Virginia. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1994.

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.

__________. "The Search for Good Men: Recruiting Ministers in Colonial Virginia." Ibid., 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.

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

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

Lenman, Bruce P. "God's Politician." Colonial Williamsburg. XVII (1995), pp. 25-31.

Lounsbury, Carl R. "The Architectural Expression of Religious Beliefs: Churches and Meeting Houses of Early America." Hennage Lecture, Colonial Williamsburg, May 30, 1990, videotape.

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

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

Miller, William C., and Cynthia M. Miller. Williamsburg: Cradle of the First Liberty. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988.

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.

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.

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

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.

Wilmore, Gayraud S. Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of the Afro-American People. 2nd ed. Maryknoll, N. Y.: Orbis Books, 1983.

Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York, 1992.

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

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