Antirevivalism In Antebellum America
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Author |
: James D. Bratt |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813536936 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813536934 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Antirevivalism in Antebellum America by : James D. Bratt
One of the most enduring images from the early years of American history is that of a preacher on horseback, slogging through mud and rain to bring folks in the backwoods the message of God and glory. Such religious revivals not only became the defining mark of American religion but also played a central role in the nation's developing identity, independence, and democratic principles. But revivalism has always generated opposition, too, even in its century of glory. In Anti-Revivalism in Antebellum America, James D. Bratt offers extensive introductions to primary anti-revivalist documents. These works range from the Philadelphia Methodist John F. Watson's protests against camp meetings in 1819, to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Eighty Years and More," written in 1898, in which she recalls her youthful encounter with revival preaching and her rebound into political activism and religious agnosticism. Through the recovered voices of antebellum religious critics, Bratt shows how American culture was already being reshaped a generation before the Civil War and how evangelical religion stood at the center of a "culture war." If revivals typified the era when Americans launched and defined their new nation, then objections to these revivals embodied the growing discontent at what the nation had become. An important and long overdue collection, this book urges an understanding of anti-revival literature both in the context of the era when it emerged as well as in terms of the broader dynamic of American life. Includes selections from Orestes Brownson, Horace Bushnell, Calvin Colton, Orville Dewey, Albert Baldwin Dod, George Elley, Charles G. Finney, John Williamson Nevin, Stephen Olin, Phoebe Palmer, Daniel Alexander Payne, Ephraim Perkins, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Joseph Smith, Harriet Beecher Stowe, La Roy Sunderland, John Fanning Watson, Ellen G. White, and Friedrich C. D. Wyneken.
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: Social Studies |
Total Pages |
: 22 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781575962153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1575962152 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revivalists and Utopians: Reform in Antebellum America by :
Author |
: Paul J. Zwirecki |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:964570798 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fighting 'A Spirit of Fanaticism' by : Paul J. Zwirecki
The New Measures religious revivals led by Charles Grandison Finney in New York and New England created controversies and debates over revivalism and evangelicalism in antebellum America. This dissertation examines five different antirevival discourses that emerged around the New Measures revivals between 1824 and 1850. This study argues that two major themes connect these discourses. The first is the theme of social disorder. Rather than viewing revivals as a force for order on the frontier, moderate revival leaders from the clergy believed that the New Measures brought disorder upon the participants and their communities. Secular antirevivalists worried about disorder as well. Amariah Brigham, the superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, criticized the New Measures and admitted patients suffering from "religious insanity" brought on by their experiences with revival religion. The importance of the orderly expansion of Christianity across the United States was related to the second theme. This study also argues that millennial anticipation fueled both revivalism and antirevivalism. Evangelical Protestants believed that successful revivals of religion, comprised of legitimate conversions, accelerated the arrival of the millennium. Thus, the definitions of "successful" revivals and "legitimate" conversions were hotly contested. Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists saw slavery as an impediment the millennium and opposed revivals because they contributed to indifference towards abolition. Taken together, these antirevival discourses shed new light on the opponents of antebellum religious revivals: those who resisted the conversion efforts of revival preachers, members of the clergy who were disinterested or oppositional to revivalists, and secular opponents of the revivals.
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Total Pages |
: 19 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:82224808 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revivalists and Utopians by :
Includes two pairs of contrasting primary source documents, worksheets, overhead transparencies for each document pair and a final document-based question.
Author |
: John Lardas Modern |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2011-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226533230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226533239 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Secularism in Antebellum America by : John Lardas Modern
Ghosts, railroads, Sing Sing, sex machines - these are just a few of the phenomena that appear in this pioneering account of religion and society in 19th-century America.
Author |
: Adam Jortner |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2022-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421441771 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421441772 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Place for Saints by : Adam Jortner
The emergence of the Mormon church is arguably the most radical event in American religious history. How and why did so many Americans flock to this new religion, and why did so many other Americans seek to silence or even destroy that movement? Winner of the MHA Best Book Award by the Mormon History Association Mormonism exploded across America in 1830, and America exploded right back. By 1834, the new religion had been mocked, harassed, and finally expelled from its new settlements in Missouri. Why did this religion generate such anger? And what do these early conflicts say about our struggles with religious liberty today? In No Place for Saints, the first stand-alone history of the Mormon expulsion from Jackson County and the genesis of Mormonism, Adam Jortner chronicles how Latter-day Saints emerged and spread their faith—and how anti-Mormons tried to stop them. Early on, Jortner explains, anti-Mormonism thrived on gossip, conspiracies, and outright fables about what Mormons were up to. Anti-Mormons came to believe Mormons were a threat to democracy, and anyone who claimed revelation from God was an enemy of the people with no rights to citizenship. By 1833, Jackson County's anti-Mormons demanded all Saints leave the county. When Mormons refused—citing the First Amendment—the anti-Mormons attacked their homes, held their leaders at gunpoint, and performed one of America's most egregious acts of religious cleansing. From the beginnings of Mormonism in the 1820s to their expansion and expulsion in 1834, Jortner discusses many of the most prominent issues and events in Mormon history. He touches on the process of revelation, the relationship between magic and LDS practice, the rise of the priesthood, the questions surrounding Mormonism and African Americans, the internal struggles for leadership of the young church, and how American law shaped this American religion. Throughout, No Place for Saints shows how Mormonism—and the violent backlash against it—fundamentally reshaped the American religious and legal landscape. Ultimately, the book is a story of Jacksonian America, of how democracy can fail religious freedom, and a case study in popular politics as America entered a great age of religion and violence.
Author |
: J. Augusteijn |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2013-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137291721 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137291729 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism by : J. Augusteijn
The success of fascist and communist regimes has long been explained by their ability to turn political ideology into a type of religion. These innovative essays explore the notion that all forms of modern mass-politics, including democracies, need a form of sacralization to function.
Author |
: Nathaniel Wiewora |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2024-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252055393 |
ISBN-13 |
: 025205539X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sins of Christendom by : Nathaniel Wiewora
Evangelical criticism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dates back to the earliest days of the Church. Nathaniel Wiewora uses the diverse animus expressed by evangelicals to illuminate how they used an imaginary Church as a proxy to disagree, attack, compromise, and settle differences among themselves. As Wiewora shows, the evangelical practice to contrast itself with the emerging faith not only encompassed but also went beyond religious matters. If Joseph Smith was accused of muddling religious truth, he and his followers also faced accusations of immoral economic practices and a sinful regard for wealth that reflected worries within the evangelical world. Attacks on Latter-day Saints’ emotional religious displays, the Book of Mormon’s authenticity, and the dangerous ideas represented by Nauvoo paralleled similar conflicts. Wiewora traces how the failure to blunt the Church’s success led evangelicals to change their own methods and pursue the religious education infrastructure that came to define parts of the movement.
Author |
: Lawrence Thomas Lesick |
Publisher |
: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015011553438 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lane Rebels by : Lawrence Thomas Lesick
Author |
: Erica Caple James |
Publisher |
: University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2019-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826360342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826360343 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Governing Gifts by : Erica Caple James
This collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing. Rather than attempt to delimit what constitutes so-called faith-based aid and institutions or to reify the concept of the state, they seek to understand how faith and organized religious charity can be mobilized—at times on behalf of the state—to govern populations and their practices. In exploring the relationship between faith-based charity and the state, this volume contributes to discussions of the boundaries between public and private realms and to studies on the resurgence of religion in politics and public policy. The contributors demonstrate how the borders between faith-based and secular domains of governance cannot be clearly defined. Ultimately the book aims to expand the parameters of what has typically been a US-centric discussion of faith-based interventions as it explores the concepts of faith, charity, security, and governance within a global perspective.