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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... churches increased from five hundred to over twenty - five hundred . The black church in America was born amidst the crusading vigor of these movements and quickly assumed its own distinct character and broad appeal . By the middle of ...
... church organization . The sheer number of new preachers in the young republic was not a predictable outgrowth of religious conditions in the British colonies . Rather , their sudden growth indicated a profound religious up- surge and ...
... church . A style of religious leadership that the public deemed " untutored " and " irregular " as late as the First ... church for themselves . Religious populism , re- flecting the passions of ordinary people and the charisma of ...
... church , by industrial strife and overt class conflict , the church battened down its conservative hatches . Anglicanism , locked in its defense of deference and paternalism , avoided the industrial areas of the Midlands and the North ...
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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