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Houses Divided
Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri
Inbunden, 2018
1720 kr
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Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the slaveholding border state of …
The Origins of American Religious Nationalism
Av Sam Haselby
Häftad, 2017
748 kr
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Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism. Following U.S. independence, the new …
A Divinity for All Persuasions
Almanacs and Early American Religious Life
Av T.J. Tomlin
Häftad, 2017
696 kr
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A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the religious signifiance of early America's most ubiquitous popular genre. Other than a Bible and perhaps a few schoolbooks and sermons, almanacs were the only printed items most Americans owned before 1820. Purchased annually, the almanac was a calendar and …
The Rude Hand of Innovation
Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York 1652-1836. The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize Essay of the American Society of Church History
Inbunden, 1991
1573 kr
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Tracing the social and religious transformation of Albany, New York, from its colonial origins through the industrialization of the early nineteenth century, Hackett's study not only illuminates the social history of Albany, but abundantly demonstrates the central role played by religion in the …
Female Piety in Puritan New England
The Emergence of Religious Humanism
Inbunden, 1992
1288 kr
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Amanda Porterfield documents the claim that for Puritan men and women alike the ideals of selfhood were conveyed by female images. Constructed largely by men, Porterfield argues, these female images taught self-control, shaped pious ideals, and also established the standards against which the moral …
Submitting to Freedom
The Religious Vision of William James
Inbunden, 1993
2018 kr
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Bennett Ramsey presents a new analysis of the religious views of the nineteenth-century American philosopher William James. Ramsey argues that James was primarily motivated by religious concerns in all of his writings and that this fact has been obscured by the artificial scholarly division of his …
American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions
Inbunden, 1994
4233 kr
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The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include post-Civil War Transcendentalists like Samuel Johnson, this book is encyclopedic in scope. Beginning with the inception of Transcendentalist …
John Williamson Nevin, American Theologian
Inbunden, 1997
693 kr
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This study of the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) offers a revised interpretation of an important nineteenth-century religious thinker. Along with the historian, Phillip Schaff, Nevin was a leading exponent of what became known as the Mercersburg Movement, named for the …
Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America
Inbunden, 1994
2306 kr
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This original examination of the spiritual narratives of conversion in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion reveals an interesting paradox. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love, …
Standing Against the Whirlwind
Evangelical Episcopalians in Nineteenth-Century America. The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize Essay for the American Society of Church History for 1993
Inbunden, 1995
2719 kr
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Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America. A surprising revisionist account of the church's first century, it reveals the extent to which evangelical Episcopalians helped to shape the piety, identity, theology, and …
The Muslims of America
Häftad, 1994
541 kr
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This collection, which grows out of a conference held at the University of Massachusetts in 1988, brings together sixteen previously unpublished essays about the history, organization, challenges, responses, outstanding thinkers, and future prospects of the Muslim community in the US and Canada. …
Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England
The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America
Av Mark Valeri
Inbunden, 1995
2077 kr
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This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut Calvinist minister noted chiefly for his role in originating the New Divinity--the influential theological movement that evolved from the writings of Bellamy's …
The Presbyterian Controversy
Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates
Av Longfield
Häftad, 1994
1306 kr
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the Presbyterian Church in the US was wracked by a bitter theological controversy that mirrored the wider fundamentalist-modernist conflict dividing American society during that period. By examining the lives and thought of six major protagonists of the Presbyterian …
Reimagining Denominationalism
Interpretive Essays
Av Robert Bruce Mullin, Robert Bruce Mullin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1811 kr
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Denominationalism--that "free market" mode of organizing religious life which, some say, manages to combine traditional religious claims with a free society in a peculiarly American way--is the subject of the previously unpublished papers in this collection. No institution, the editors argue, is as …
Keepers of the Covenant
Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818
Inbunden, 1995
1390 kr
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Rohrer challenges the traditional interpretation of the decline of the Congregationalists. Drawing heavily on unpublished manuscripts, the author shows that, rather than failing to adapt to the democratizing culture of the western migration, they were in fact aggressive frontier evangelists. In the …
The Viper on the Hearth
Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Inbunden, 1997
1978 kr
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Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people - the `viper on the hearth' - who sought to violate the domestic sphere of the …
Conjuring Culture
Biblical Formations of Black America
Av Smith
Häftad, 1996
960 kr
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This book provides a sophisticated new interdisciplinary interpretation of the formulation and evolution of African American religion and culture. Theophus Smith argues for the central importance of "conjure"--a magical means of transforming reality--in black spirituality and culture. Smith shows …
Democratic Religion
Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900
Inbunden, 1997
1151 kr
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No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. …
Taking Heaven by Storm
Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America
Inbunden, 1998
3085 kr
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Following the Revolutionary War, American Methodism grew at an astonishing rate, rising from fewer than 1000 members in 1770 to over 250,000 by 1820. John H. Wigger seeks to explain the puzzle of this remarkable growth, offering a provocative reassessment of the role of popular religion in American …
Episcopal Women
Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline Denomination
Häftad, 1996
683 kr
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The opening of the ordained ministry to women, in the larger context of the women's movement in America, has created an unprecedented situation within Protestant denominations. Religious organizations previously shaped solely by men are now increasingly directed by women. Episcopal Women is the …
Our Lady of the Exile
Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami
Inbunden, 1997
2260 kr
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This is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami, which is the sacred centre of the Cuban community in exile. Tweed uses historical and ethnographic methods to discover why the shrine attained so much importance and attracts so many …
The Soul of Development
Biblical Christianity and Economic Transformation in Guatemala
Inbunden, 1997
2719 kr
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Ever since Max Weber started an argument about the role of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's economic development, scholars have clashed over the influence of religion and culture on a society's (or an individual's) economic prospects. Today, many wonder whether the "explosion" of …
Old Ship of Zion
The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
Av Pitts
Häftad, 1997
911 kr
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This is a major new study of the African origins of African-American forms of worship, based on the author's fieldwork in black Baptist churches in rural Texas. Through historical comparisons and linguistic analysis, Pitts uncovers striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and the …
The Gospel Working Up
Progress and the Pulpit in 19th Century Virginia
Inbunden, 2000
1985 kr
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This book offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Unlike previous scholars, who examined Southern Protestantism as only a proslavery and …
The Character of God
Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism
Inbunden, 1998
649 kr
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It is a truism that modern theology is mostly dull and irrelevant to religious life. In this book, Thomas Jenkins maintains that theology became boring because the depiction of God as a character in theology became boring. To a large extent, theologians have fashioned the character of God according …
Black Zion
African American Religious Encounters with Judaism
Av Yvonne Chireau, Nathaniel Deutsch
Inbunden, 2000
2031 kr
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Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's unifying argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw puzzle, that much of the recent turmoil in black-Jewish relations would be …
Black Zion
African American Religious Encounters with Judaism
Av Yvonne Chireau, Nathaniel Deutsch
Häftad, 2000
1561 kr
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Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's unifying argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw puzzle, that much of the recent turmoil in black-Jewish relations would be …
American Madonna
Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture
Av Gatta
Häftad, 1997
1048 kr
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This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman - verging at times on devotional …
The Revival of 1857-58
Interpreting an American Religious Awakening
Inbunden, 1998
3040 kr
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This book provides a critical analysis of a revival often overshadowed by earlier "great awakenings". The Revival of 1857-58 was a widespread religious awakening most famous for urban prayer meetings in major metropolitan centres across the United States. The author places this revival within the …
Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries
Inbunden, 1998
1573 kr
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American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century, enabling them not only to disseminate religious principles but also to break into public life and create expanded opportunities for themselves and other …
