ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7585-5472
Date Awarded
2023
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department
History
Advisor
Christopher Grasso
Committee Member
Nicholas Popper
Committee Member
Joshua Piker
Committee Member
Jessica Stern
Abstract
This dissertation argues that Protestant hegemony prevailed in colonial Rhode Island in the absence of an established church, which demonstrates that church establishment was not the primary fuel of Protestant hegemony in the early modern English Atlantic world. Analyzing a combination of well-known and lesser-known books, letters, diaries, newspapers, and laws, my findings indicate that Rhode Island championed a broad Protestant synthesis that transcended individual denominations. While historians have identified this Protestant synthesis in the era of the early republic in the United States, my research shows that these forces of synthesis and hegemony without establishment existed at least two centuries earlier in the English Atlantic world.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-mct9-rb36
Rights
© The Author
Recommended Citation
Mulligan, Mark, ""Glory To The English And Protestant Name": Protestant Hegemony In Seventeenth And Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island" (2023). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. William & Mary. Paper 1686662692.
https://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-mct9-rb36
