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Category : Camp meetings
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The Camp-meeting Chorister, Or, A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Author: The History of Methodism: American Methodism
Author: John Fletcher HurstPublisher:
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Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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The Illustrated Christian Martyrology
Author: Church in the Wild
Author: Brett Malcolm GraingerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674239563
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A religious studies scholar argues that in antebellum America, evangelicals, not Transcendentalists, connected ordinary Americans with their spiritual roots in the natural world. We have long credited Emerson and his fellow Transcendentalists with revolutionizing religious life in America and introducing a new appreciation of nature. Breaking with Protestant orthodoxy, these New Englanders claimed that God could be found not in church but in forest, fields, and streams. Their spiritual nonconformity had thrilling implications but never traveled far beyond their circle. In this essential reconsideration of American faith in the years leading up to the Civil War, Brett Malcolm Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but the evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment. Evangelical Christianity won believers from the rural South to the industrial North: this was the true popular religion of the antebellum years. Revivalists went to the woods not to free themselves from the constraints of Christianity but to renew their ties to God. Evangelical Christianity provided a sense of enchantment for those alienated by a rapidly industrializing world. In forested camp meetings and riverside baptisms, in private contemplation and public water cures, in electrotherapy and mesmerism, American evangelicals communed with nature, God, and one another. A distinctive spirituality emerged pairing personal piety with a mystical relation to nature. As Church in the Wild reveals, the revivalist attitude toward nature and the material world, which echoed that of Catholicism, spread like wildfire among Christians of all backgrounds during the years leading up to the Civil War.
Short Sermons on Important Subjects
Author: Jonathan EdmondsonPublisher:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Containing Multitudes
Author: Wesley PhelpsPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610757807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Containing Multitudes: A Documentary Reader of US History provides nearly two hundred primary documents that narrate aspects of US history from the period before European contact through the twenty-first century. Presented in two volumes, this curated selection—including letters, literature, journalism, and visual art—provides access to historical voices from a wide range of subject positions and belief systems. Designed for US history survey courses, this reader provides both analysis and instructional support in the form of brief introductory essays and questions to promote student discussion and reflection. Containing Multitudes not only conveys a rich and complex portrait of the American past but also offers readers valuable insight into the many dimensions of the historian’s craft.
The Lady at Home
Author: Timothy Shay ArthurPublisher:
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Category : Master and servant
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Saints Everlasting Rest, Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven
Author: Richard BaxterPublisher:
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Category : Devotional literature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Life of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs
Author: Stephen BurroughsBeauties of American History
Author: John Lauris BlakePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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