The Evangelical fight for religious liberty in revolutionary Virginia

• Main Author: Pang, Daniel Wen Zhe
• Other Authors: Ivy Yeh
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Religions::Christianity; Humanities::History::United States
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171499
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper argues that to achieve full religious liberty and a strict church-state separation as represented in the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (AERF) of 1786, Evangelicals in Revolutionary Virginia capitalised on the sentiments of anti-establishment politicians, the newfound freedo...