The Democratization of American ChristianityA provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic "The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism, and this book is the most important study of it ever published."—James Turner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Winner of the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic book prize, and the Albert C. Outler Prize In this provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, Nathan O. Hatch argues that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century—the Christian movement, Methodism, the Baptist movement, the black churches, and the Mormons—showing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated. |
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... Asbury, by Charles Peale Polk, 1794 (courtesy of Lovely Lane Museum of the Baltimore Conference Historical Society) 9. “The Circuit Preacher,” from a drawing by A. R. Waud in Harper's Weekly, October 12, 1867 (courtesy of the Billy ...
... Asbury ; The Independent Conscience of John Leland ; Black Preachers and the Flowering of Afro - American Christianity ; The Populist Vision of Joseph Smith III . AUDIENCE 5. The Sovereign Audience xi xiii 3 17 49 67 125 The Triumph of ...
... Asbury , by Charles Peale Polk , 1794 ( courtesy of Lovely Lane Museum of the Baltimore Conference Historical Society ) 9. " The Circuit Preacher , " from a drawing by A. R. Waud in Harper's Weekly , October 12 , 1867 ( courtesy of the ...
Nathan O. Hatch. 10. Log church in which Bishop Francis Asbury held the first Methodist conference in Kentucky in 1790 , date of picture unknown ( courtesy of the Billy Graham Center Museum ) 92 108 11. Richard Allen , first bishop of ...
... Asbury claimed it was his duty to condescend to people of low estate , and Peter Cartwright , dispensing with the trappings of respectability , recast the gospel in a familiar idiom . Most important , they welcomed hundreds of common ...
Contents
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The Sovereign Audience | 125 |
The Right to Think for Oneself | 162 |
Upward Aspiration and Democratic Dissent | 193 |
The Recurring Populist | 210 |
A Sampling of Anticlerical | 227 |
Notes | 244 |
Index | 305 |
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The Democratization of American Christianity Nathan O. Hatch,Professor Nathan O Hatch Limited preview - 1989 |