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Religious sentiments shape and are simultaneously shaped by constructions of power in any society unified (or divided) by the manifestation of religious beliefs. This paper shows that within the context of the American Revolution, a war itself occurring in a wider Atlantic context, religious sentiments (specifically Protestant Christianity in a variety of forms) first strengthened, then helped demolish the authority of the British Empire in the North American colonies.

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"The Protestant Reformation began in Europe less than two decades after the Catholic Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, a voyage motivated in part by a search for east Indian spices, commonly perceived to come from "a plain near Paradise," or netted in the Nile, "which...had carried them straight from Paradise." Religious motivation was certainly not the sole issue bringing Columbus to the new world, but it played a part in the popular imagination of the goods he sought, and certainly in the rationale for interactions with the native people's he found."

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