Author: Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Confession of Faith and Form of Covenant of the Old South Church
Author: Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Confession of Faith, Covenant, Forms of Admission, Ecclesiastical Principles and Rules, with an Historical Sketch, and List of Members, 1877
Author: Daniel WightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385545501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Business of the Heart
Author: John CorriganPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520924320
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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. He uses it as a focal point for addressing a spectacular range of phenomena in American culture: the ecclesiastical and business history of Boston; gender roles and family life; the history of the theater and public spectacle; education; boyculture; and, especially, ideas about emotion during this period. This vividly written narrative recovers the emotional experiences of individuals from a wide array of little-used sources including diaries, correspondence, public records, and other materials. From these sources, Corrigan discovers that for these Protestants, the expression of emotion was a matter of transactions. They saw emotion as a commodity, and conceptualized relations between people, and between individuals and God, as transactions of emotion governed by contract. Religion became a business relation with God, with prayer as its legal tender. Entering this relationship, they were conducting the "business of the heart." This innovative study shows that the revival--with its commodification of emotional experience--became an occasion for white Protestants to underscore differences between themselves and others. The display of emotion was a primary indicator of membership in the Protestant majority, as much as language, skin color, or dress style. As Corrigan unravels the significance of these culturally constructed standards for emotional life, his book makes an important contribution to recent efforts to explore the links between religion and emotion, and is an important new chapter in the history of religion.
A History of Temple, New Hampshire, 1768-1976
Author: Historical Society of Temple, N.H.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The American Church History Series: A history of the Congregational churches, by Williston Walker
Author: The American Church History Series: A history of the Congregational churches, by Williston Walker
Author: Philip SchaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The American Church History Series: A history of the Congregational churches, by W. Walker
Author: Philip SchaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States
Author: Williston WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The American Church History Series
Author: Spiritual Home
Author: Charles D. CashdollarPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043555
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Spiritual Home explores congregational life inside British and American Reformed churches between 1830 and 1915. At a time when scholars have become interested in the day-to-day experience of local congregations, this book reaches back into the nineteenth century, a critically formative period in Anglo-American religious life, to examine the historical roots of congregational life.Taking the perspective of the laity, Cashdollar ranges widely from worship and music to fund-raising and administration, from pastoral care to social work, from prayer meetings to strawberry festivals, from the sanctuary to the kitchen. Firmly rooted in broader currents of gender, class, notions of middle-class respectability, increasing expectations for personal privacy, and patterns of professionalization, he finds that there was a gradual shift in emphasis during these years from piety to fellowship. Based on records, publications, and memorabilia from about 150 congregations representing eight denominations, A Spiritual Home gives us a comprehensive, composite portrait of religious life in Victorian Britain and America.