UID:
edocfu_9960800250902883
Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
ISBN:
0-674-23956-3
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0-674-23954-7
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-674-91937-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674239548
