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July, 2008
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Joseph Priestly and English Unitarianism in America. By J. D. Bowers. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.)

      New England no longer holds pride of place in histories of early American religion, and J. D. Bowers argues that even Unitarianism was not a uniquely New England expression of antebellum Protestantism. Rather, the early history of American Unitarianism was shaped by competing theological positions, especially those advanced by English émigré Joseph Priestly, in what Bowers labels "English Unitarianism." Bowers successfully recovers the influence of Priestly and English Unitarianism, but he utilizes a denominational model that is both useful and constraining. . . .
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