Religious and Political Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern West

AHA Session 143
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Continental A (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
Susan Juster, University of Michigan
Papers:
The Price of Loyalty: Sacrifice, Citizenship, and Democracy
Jonathan L. Sheehan, University of California, Berkeley
Changing Loyalties: Religious Conversion and the American Revolution
Mark Valeri, Washington University in St. Louis
Religious Identity and Alternative Nationalism: Mormonism in a Global Context
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis
Comment:
Susan Juster, University of Michigan

Session Abstract

This panel concerns the relationships among religious and political loyalties. Jonathan Sheehan addresses sacrifice and virtuous citizenship in the eighteenth-century age of republican politics. Mark Valeri considers religious conversion, national affiliation, and American independence. Laurie Maffly-Kipp describes the multiple nationalisms of global Mormonism in the nineteenth century.
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