Introduction: Federalist politics and religious struggle in the new American nation

I. Evangelicals & Federalists

John Jay and the shift from republican religion to evangelical federalism

Timothy Dwight and Jedidiah Morse : the politics of infidelity

Caleb Strong and the politics of personal piety

Advocating "public righteousness" : Elias Boudinot and the transformation of Federalist religion

II. Alternatives to the evangelical party

Unitarian politics and the splintering of the Federalist coalition

Religion and federalism with a South Carolina accent

III. Religion & politics after the Federalist Party

Peter Augustus Jay : Federalist withdrawal and the turn to voluntarist morality

William Jay : nonpolitical moral and religious reform

Epilogue: Federalists, religion, and American politics.