UID:
edocfu_9959089996202883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780674239548
Content:
Emerson and the Transcendentalists get credit for revolutionizing religious life in America by introducing a new appreciation of nature. But in this reconsideration of faith in the antebellum period, Brett Malcolm Grainger argues that it was Evangelical revivalists who transformed everyday religious life and spiritualized the natural environment.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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INTRODUCTION --
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1. A TOLERABLE IDOLATRY --
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2. THE BOOK OF NATURE --
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3. THROUGH NATURE TO NATURE'S GOD --
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4. HEALING SPRINGS --
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5. THE THEOLOGY OF ELECTRICITY --
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CONCLUSION --
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NOTES --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674239548
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674239548
