Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics at George Fox University.Daniel L. Dreisbach is Professor of Justice, Law and Society at American University.

Dreisbach and Hall's volume definitely advances the conversation about religion and the founding through widening the scope of topics considered and acknowledging the complexity of the issue.

• Contributors ; Introduction - Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall ; PART I: Religion and Political Culture in the American Founding ; Chapter 1 Deism and the Founders - Darren Staloff ; Chapter 2 Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: The Influence of the Reformed Tradition in the American Founding - Mark David Hall ; Chapter 3 Jews, Judaism, and the American Founding - David G. Dalin ; Chapter 4 The Founders and Islam - Thomas S. Kidd ; Chapter 5 Religion and the Loyalists - Robert M. Calhoon and Ruma Chopra ; Chapter 6 The Antifederalists and Religion - Donald L. Drakeman ; Chapter 7 The Bible in the Political Culture of the American Founding - Daniel L. Dreisbach ; Chapter 8 Religion, Race, and the Founders - Jonathan D. Sassi ; PART II: Faith and the Founders ; Chapter 9 Gouverneur Morris and Theistic Rationalism in the Founding Era - Gregg Frazer ; Chapter 10 John Hancock: Congregationalist Revolutionary - Gary Scott Smith ; Chapter 11 Elias Boudinot, Presbyterians, and the Quest for a "Righteous Republic" - Jonathan Den Hartog ; Chapter 12 The Quaker Contributions of John Dickinson to the Creation of the American Republic - Jane E. Calvert ; Chapter 13 Isaac Backus and John Leland: Baptist Contributions to Religious Liberty in the Founding Era - Joe L. Coker ; Index

Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics at George Fox University.Daniel L. Dreisbach is Professor of Justice, Law and Society at American University.

Dreisbach and Hall's volume definitely advances the conversation about religion and the founding through widening the scope of topics considered and acknowledging the complexity of the issue.

• Contributors ; Introduction - Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall ; PART I: Religion and Political Culture in the American Founding ; Chapter 1 Deism and the Founders - Darren Staloff ; Chapter 2 Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: The Influence of the Reformed Tradition in the American Founding - Mark David Hall ; Chapter 3 Jews, Judaism, and the American Founding - David G. Dalin ; Chapter 4 The Founders and Islam - Thomas S. Kidd ; Chapter 5 Religion and the Loyalists - Robert M. Calhoon and Ruma Chopra ; Chapter 6 The Antifederalists and Religion - Donald L. Drakeman ; Chapter 7 The Bible in the Political Culture of the American Founding - Daniel L. Dreisbach ; Chapter 8 Religion, Race, and the Founders - Jonathan D. Sassi ; PART II: Faith and the Founders ; Chapter 9 Gouverneur Morris and Theistic Rationalism in the Founding Era - Gregg Frazer ; Chapter 10 John Hancock: Congregationalist Revolutionary - Gary Scott Smith ; Chapter 11 Elias Boudinot, Presbyterians, and the Quest for a "Righteous Republic" - Jonathan Den Hartog ; Chapter 12 The Quaker Contributions of John Dickinson to the Creation of the American Republic - Jane E. Calvert ; Chapter 13 Isaac Backus and John Leland: Baptist Contributions to Religious Liberty in the Founding Era - Joe L. Coker ; Index

Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics at George Fox University.Daniel L. Dreisbach is Professor of Justice, Law and Society at American University.

Dreisbach and Hall's volume definitely advances the conversation about religion and the founding through widening the scope of topics considered and acknowledging the complexity of the issue.

• Contributors ; Introduction - Daniel L. Dreisbach and Mark David Hall ; PART I: Religion and Political Culture in the American Founding ; Chapter 1 Deism and the Founders - Darren Staloff ; Chapter 2 Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: The Influence of the Reformed Tradition in the American Founding - Mark David Hall ; Chapter 3 Jews, Judaism, and the American Founding - David G. Dalin ; Chapter 4 The Founders and Islam - Thomas S. Kidd ; Chapter 5 Religion and the Loyalists - Robert M. Calhoon and Ruma Chopra ; Chapter 6 The Antifederalists and Religion - Donald L. Drakeman ; Chapter 7 The Bible in the Political Culture of the American Founding - Daniel L. Dreisbach ; Chapter 8 Religion, Race, and the Founders - Jonathan D. Sassi ; PART II: Faith and the Founders ; Chapter 9 Gouverneur Morris and Theistic Rationalism in the Founding Era - Gregg Frazer ; Chapter 10 John Hancock: Congregationalist Revolutionary - Gary Scott Smith ; Chapter 11 Elias Boudinot, Presbyterians, and the Quest for a "Righteous Republic" - Jonathan Den Hartog ; Chapter 12 The Quaker Contributions of John Dickinson to the Creation of the American Republic - Jane E. Calvert ; Chapter 13 Isaac Backus and John Leland: Baptist Contributions to Religious Liberty in the Founding Era - Joe L. Coker ; Index