@article{sirota_2023, title={Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720}, volume={62}, ISSN={["1545-6986"]}, DOI={10.1017/jbr.2023.44}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2023}, month={Apr}, pages={516–517} }
 @article{sirota_2022, title={"The Manifest Distinction Established by Our Holy Religion": Church, State and the Consecration of Samuel Seabury}, ISSN={["1533-8568"]}, DOI={10.1017/rac.2022.3}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT The consecration of Samuel Seabury as bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Connecticut in November 1784 is typically taken to mark the threshold that divides the magisterial pretensions of the old-world confessional state from the pluralism of the new-world denominational order. In such accounts, a chastened Anglicanism reluctantly sacrificed its royalism and claims to establishment in acquiescence to the pluralistic religious ecology of the republican United States. The Church of England, in this telling, possessed no native conception of the separation of church and state. The Americanization of Anglicanism, therefore, entailed the acceptance of ecclesiological premises foreign and inimical to its tradition—stemming largely from the intellectual world of the enlightenment and Protestant nonconformity. Such a narrative of denominational beginnings, this article demonstrates, fails to grapple seriously with the strain of antiestablishmentarian thought within Anglicanism itself. The separation of church and state necessarily implicated in Seabury's securing of “a free, valid and purely Ecclesiastical Episcopacy” was neither an alien imposition nor a mere epiphenomenon of American religious liberty. The catholic tendency in Anglicanism had long developed its own conception of ecclesiastical independence, which rejected both state superintendence as well as religious voluntarism. The consecration of Samuel Seabury, this article argues, was secured and defended in an Atlantic milieu characterized by this dual-sided antipathy. By setting the events and controversies surrounding the Seabury consecration back into this broader Atlantic milieu, we will glean a clearer sense of the imperative of ecclesial separateness and distinctiveness that characterized American Episcopalianism in the early republic. American Episcopalianism in the nineteenth century, particularly that of the high church tendency, was remarkably free of the establishmentarian and political impulses of other denominations because it was founded in explicit rejection of them.}, journal={RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE-A JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION}, author={Sirota, Brent}, year={2022}, month={Jul} }
 @article{sirota_2021, title={In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience}, volume={60}, ISSN={["1545-6986"]}, DOI={10.1017/jbr.2021.112}, abstractNote={Jeffrey R. Collins. In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience. Ideas in Context 127. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 430. $120.00 (cloth). - Volume 60 Issue 4}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2021}, month={Oct}, pages={947–949} }
 @article{sirota_2021, title={The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England: "The Wonders of the Lord"}, volume={90}, ISSN={["1755-2613"]}, DOI={10.1017/S0009640721001104}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={1}, journal={CHURCH HISTORY}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2021}, month={Mar}, pages={203–205} }
 @article{sirota_2019, title={The Education of the Anglican Clergy 1780-1839}, volume={88}, ISSN={["1755-2613"]}, DOI={10.1017/S0009640719001549}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={2}, journal={CHURCH HISTORY}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2019}, month={Jun}, pages={534–536} }
 @misc{sirota_macinnes_2019, title={The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire}, ISBN={9781787445468}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781787445468}, DOI={10.1017/9781787445468}, publisher={Boydell and Brewer Limited}, author={Sirota, Brent S. and Macinnes, Allan I.}, year={2019}, month={Nov} }
 @article{sirota_2018, title={The Political Bible in Early Modern England}, volume={87}, ISSN={["1755-2613"]}, DOI={10.1017/S0009640718002056}, abstractNote={The Political Bible in Early Modern England. By Kevin Killeen. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xii + 310 pp. $58.99 hardback. - Volume 87 Issue 3}, number={3}, journal={CHURCH HISTORY}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2018}, month={Sep}, pages={907–909} }
 @article{sirota_2017, title={Anglican Confirmation, 1662-1820.}, volume={40}, ISSN={["1754-0208"]}, DOI={10.1111/1754-0208.12381}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2017}, month={Sep}, pages={469–471} }
 @article{sirota_2017, title={Religion and Women in Britain, c. 1660-1760.}, volume={40}, ISSN={["1754-0208"]}, DOI={10.1111/1754-0208.12460}, abstractNote={Journal for Eighteenth-Century StudiesVolume 40, Issue 3 p. 473-474 Book review Religion and Women in Britain, c. 1660–1760. Edited by Sarah Apetrei and Hannah Smith. Farnham: Ashgate. 2014. 228 p. £75 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-2919-7. Brent S. Sirota, Brent S. Sirota North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Brent S. Sirota, Brent S. Sirota North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 August 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12460Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume40, Issue3September 2017Pages 473-474 RelatedInformation}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2017}, month={Sep}, pages={473–474} }
 @article{sirota_2015, title={Robert Nelson's festivals and fasts and the problem of the sacred in early Eighteenth-Century England}, volume={84}, DOI={10.1017/s0009640715000505}, abstractNote={The pious layman Robert Nelson's 1704 tract A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England was arguably the most popular and important Anglican devotional work of the eighteenth century. Ostensibly a simple guidebook to the Anglican liturgical calendar, Nelson's Festivals and Fasts was, in fact, a précis of Anglican theology and ecclesiology. What has been less clearly recognized, however, was the extent to which Nelson's Festivals and Fasts was also a sharply polemical work. This article considers Nelson's tract as a defense of “the sacred” as demarcating a socially and cognitively distinct sphere of life. Nelson's work takes great pains to maintain the spaces, offices, festivals and personnel of the church as “set apart” from the commerce of everyday life; and nearly every page exudes a fear of encroachment on the sacred. Nelson's conception of the sacred, and the manifold threats to its differentiation, provokes a reconsideration of the prevalent narratives of religious transformation in the early English enlightenment. Most importantly, it underscores the serious limitations of the current debate over secularization in this period.}, number={3}, journal={Church History}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2015}, pages={556–584} }
 @article{sirota_2015, title={THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, THE LAW OF NATIONS, AND THE LEGHORN CHAPLAINCY AFFAIR, 1703-1713}, volume={48}, ISSN={["1086-315X"]}, DOI={10.1353/ecs.2015.0014}, abstractNote={Leghorn [Livorno] in Tuscany in the early eighteenth century reveals an established Church of England attempting to accommodate itself, both ideologically and institutionally, to an increasingly dynamic and expansive British commercial empire. Against the prevailing political and ecclesiastical historiography that considers the Anglican establishment primarily in relationship to the state, this article will situate the Leghorn chaplaincy affair in the context of a subsidiary set of relationships between the Church and civil society. This article shows how the Church’s imbrication in commercial society not only drove Anglican ecclesiastical expansion in this period, but also comprised a religious lobby powerful enough to dictate policy to the British state.}, number={3}, journal={EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2015}, pages={283-+} }
 @misc{sirota_2014, title={Defending the Revolution: The Church of Scotland, 1689-1716}, volume={53}, number={3}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2014}, pages={782–784} }
 @article{sirota_2014, title={Edward E. Andrews. Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.2013. Pp. 336. $39.95 (cloth).}, volume={53}, ISSN={0021-9371 1545-6986}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/JBR.2013.185}, DOI={10.1017/JBR.2013.185}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014}, month={Jan}, pages={193–195} }
 @article{sirota_2014, title={Jeffrey Stephen. Defending the Revolution: The Church of Scotland, 1689–1716. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 354. $134.95 (cloth).}, volume={53}, ISSN={0021-9371 1545-6986}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/JBR.2014.68}, DOI={10.1017/JBR.2014.68}, number={3}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014}, month={Jul}, pages={782–784} }
 @article{sirota_2014, title={Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution}, volume={42}, ISSN={0361-2759 1930-8280}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2014.887970}, DOI={10.1080/03612759.2014.887970}, number={3}, journal={History: Reviews of New Books}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014}, month={May}, pages={91–92} }
 @misc{sirota_2014, title={Native apostles: Black and indian missionaries in the British Atlantic world}, volume={53}, number={1}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2014}, pages={193–195} }
 @article{sirota_2014, title={THE OCCASIONAL CONFORMITY CONTROVERSY, MODERATION, AND THE ANGLICAN CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY, 1700-1714}, volume={57}, ISSN={["1469-5103"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0018246x13000319}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT The occasional conformity controversy during the reign of Queen Anne has traditionally been understood as a straightforward symptom of the early eighteenth-century ‘rage of party’. For all the pious rhetoric concerning toleration and the church in danger, the controversy is considered a partisan squabble for short-term political gain. This traditional interpretation has, however, never been able to account for two features of the controversy: first, the focus on ‘moderation’ as a unique characteristic of post-Revolutionary English society; and second, the prominence of the Anglican nonjurors in the debate. This article revisits the occasional conformity controversy with an eye toward explaining these two related features. In doing so, it will argue that the occasional conformity controversy comprised a referendum on the Revolution settlement in church and state. Nonjurors lit upon the practice of occasional conformity as emblematic of the broader malady of moderation afflicting post-Revolutionary England. From their opposition to occasional conformity, the nonjurors, and soon the broader Anglican high-church movement, developed a comprehensive critique of religious modernity that would inform the entire framework of debate in the early English Enlightenment.}, number={1}, journal={HISTORICAL JOURNAL}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014}, month={Mar}, pages={81–105} }
 @book{sirota_2014, title={The Christian monitors: The Church of England and the age of benevolence, 1680-1730}, publisher={New Haven: Yale University Press}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2014} }
 @misc{sirota_2013, title={Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and slavery in the Atlantic World}, volume={52}, number={1}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2013}, pages={218–219} }
 @article{sirota_2013, title={The Trinitarian Crisis in Church and State: Religious Controversy and the Making of the Postrevolutionary Church of England, 1687-1702}, volume={52}, ISSN={["1545-6986"]}, DOI={10.1017/jbr.2012.7}, abstractNote={Abstract This article sets the wide-ranging controversy over the doctrine of the Trinity that erupted in late seventeenth-century England firmly within the political context of the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689. Against a voluminous historiography that confines the trinitarian controversy within the apolitical narrative of an incipient English enlightenment, this article considers the controversy as part of the broader political crisis that befell church and state in the final years of the century. The trinitarian controversy must be understood not simply as a doctrinal dispute but as a disciplinary crisis: a far-reaching debate over not only the content of orthodoxy but also the constitutional apportionment of responsibilities for its enforcement. As such, the controversy featured interventions from an unprecedented array of public authorities—Crown, Parliament, university, episcopate, and convocation—all claiming the preeminent custody of orthodoxy in an institutional landscape profoundly unsettled by revolutionary upheaval. This institutional dimension, long ignored by historians and theologians, placed the trinitarian controversy at the heart of civil and ecclesiastical politics during the reign of William and Mary. Indeed, the trinitarian controversy may be considered the defining event in church politics in the postrevolutionary era, exercising a prevailing influence on the content of Anglican ecclesiastical partisanship for much of the early eighteenth century. While recognizing the importance of these disputes to the emergence of an English enlightenment, this article insists that the trinitarian controversy is equally indispensable for understanding the rage of political parties in postrevolutionary England.}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2013}, month={Jan}, pages={26–54} }
 @article{sirota_2013, title={Travis Glasson. Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 328. $55.00 (cloth).}, volume={52}, ISSN={0021-9371 1545-6986}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/JBR.2012.30}, DOI={10.1017/JBR.2012.30}, number={1}, journal={Journal of British Studies}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2013}, month={Jan}, pages={218–219} }
 @misc{sirota_2011, title={The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700}, volume={83}, number={3}, journal={Journal of Modern History}, author={Sirota, B. S.}, year={2011}, pages={637–639} }
 @article{sirota_2011, title={The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700. By Jeffrey Cox. Christianity and Society in the Modern World. Edited by, Hugh McLeod.London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xiv+315. $150.00 (cloth); $59.95 (paper).}, volume={83}, ISSN={0022-2801 1537-5358}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/660317}, DOI={10.1086/660317}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe British Missionary Enterprise since 1700. By Jeffrey Cox. Christianity and Society in the Modern World. Edited by, Hugh McLeod.London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xiv+315. $150.00 (cloth); $59.95 (paper).Brent S. SirotaBrent S. SirotaNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 83, Number 3September 2011 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/660317 Views: 14Total views on this site © 2011 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={3}, journal={The Journal of Modern History}, publisher={University of Chicago Press}, author={Sirota, Brent S.}, year={2011}, month={Sep}, pages={637–639} }