Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
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
Content:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. A TOLERABLE IDOLATRY -- 2. THE BOOK OF NATURE -- 3. THROUGH NATURE TO NATURE’S GOD -- 4. HEALING SPRINGS -- 5. THE THEOLOGY OF ELECTRICITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Note:
De Gruyter - Pilot project. eBook available to selected libraries only
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674239548
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674239548
