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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... Awakening : A Note on the Study of Christianity in the Early Republic Appendix : A Sampling of Anticlerical and Anti - Calvinist Christian Verse Notes Index 162 193 210 220 227 244 305 Illustrations 1. Lorenzo Dow , lithograph by Childs ...
... Awakening as a conservative force have obscured the egalitarianism powerfully at work in the new nation . As common people became significant actors on the reli- gious scene , there was increasing confusion and angry debate over the pur ...
... erect new forms of tyranny in religious , political , and economic institutions . 32 A study of popular religious leadership illuminates the dynamics of church growth during the so - called Second Great Awakening 14 Context.
... Awakening in Baltimore , for instance , concludes that variables on the supply rather than the demand side of the religious equation best explained the dynamics of revivalism . Evangelical religion prospered " largely because the price ...
... On this occasion , Ly- man Beecher addressed the full leadership corps of what would come to be known as New England's Second Great Awakening . Among them were 17 Timothy Dwight , Tapping Reeve , Nathaniel W. Taylor ,
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 |