Religion and the American Revolution

Contexts: Religion in the American Revolution

Join Katherine Carté, Professor of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, as she explores the powerful role of communities of faith in the American Revolution. Author of Religion and the American Revolution, Carté will examine how faith, evangelical networks, and competing religious loyalties shaped political ideas, mobilized communities, and influenced support and resistance to the revolutionary cause across the Atlantic world.

*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***

Featured Speaker: Katharine Carté

Katharine Carté is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, with a joint affiliation in the Religious Studies department. She is the author of Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) and Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History (University of North Carolina Press/Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2021), a sweeping reinterpretation of the Revolution's impact on religious life on both sides of the Atlantic. Religion and the American Revolution was described by the Society for U.S. Intellectual History as "a reorientation of how we should think about the nation's founding" and hailed by H-Early-America as "perhaps the most extensive study of public religion across the British Empire in the Revolutionary era."