Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 389 pages)
ISBN:
9780520924321
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0520924320
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1417523581
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9781417523580
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9780520221963
,
0520221966
Inhalt:
The 'Businessmen's Revival' was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significance
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-369) and index
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Introduction: Religion, emotion, and the double self -- The businessmen's revival -- The anxiety of Boston at mid-century -- Overexcitement, economic collapse, and the regulation of business -- Emotion, collective performance and value -- Emotional religion and the ministerial "balance-wheel" -- Men-women, and emotion -- Domestic contracts -- Clerks, apprentices, and boyculture -- Prayerful transactions -- Emotion, character, and ethnicity -- Epilogue: The meaning of the revival and its legacy -- Appendix 1. History, religion, and emotion: a historiographical survey -- Appendix 2. Emotion as heart, blood, and body -- Appendix 3. Emotion and the common sense philosophy.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Corrigan, John, 1952- Business of the heart Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 ISBN 0520221966
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Corrigan, John 1952-
