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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... 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.
Nathan O. Hatch. church growth during the so - called Second Great Awakening . 33 Studies of Christian advance in this era , like those of eighteenth - century revivals , have focused on the latent conditions present in the social ...
... called for five thousand new recruits , men who could train at a place such as Yale and thus rescue the people of America from another kind of religious leader who presumed to speak about matters divine : " There may be , perhaps , 15oo ...
... called of God to preach the gospel , and to go on , relying on their inward call , and neglecting almost every ministerial qualification required in the sacred Scriptures . Some of them utter a strange mixture of sense and non - sense ...
... called a federalist , a lover of order . . . duped to believe that we must follow the old beaten track laid down by our rulers and priests , without examining whether it was right or wrong . " The tyranny he perceived in John Adams's ...
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 |