UID:
almafu_9958109429802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (261 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780813188478
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0813188474
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9780813148571
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081314857X
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9780813170657
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0813170656
Serie:
Religion in the South
Inhalt:
Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improving society. As Boles shows in this landmark study, the effect of the Revival was to throw over the region a conservative cast that remains dominant in c
Anmerkung:
Rev. ed. of: The Great Revival, 1787-1805. 1972.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; Chapter One: The Setting; Chapter Two: The Feeling of Crisis; Chapter Three: The Theory of Providential Deliverance; Chapter Four: Portents of Revival; Chapter Five: Kentucky Ablaze; Chapter Six: The South Conquered; Chapter Seven: The Changing Revival Image; Chapter Eight: Homiletics & Hymnology; Chapter Nine: A Theology of Individualism; Chapter Ten: Unity & Schism; Chapter Eleven: The Economic & Political Thought of Southern Revivalism; Chapter Twelve: Revivalism & the Southern Evangelical Mind
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Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781322595931
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1322595933
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813108629
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0813108624
Sprache:
Englisch
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