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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... doctrines self - evident and down - to - earth , their music lively and sing- able , and their churches in local hands . It was this upsurge of democratic hope that characterized so many religious cultures in the early republic and ...
... doctrine and the frowns of respectable clergymen . In the last two decades of the century , preachers from a wide range of new religious movements openly fanned the flames of religious ecstasy . Reject- ing the Yankee Calvinism of his ...
... doctrines and precepts , contained in the Scriptures , may be all comprehended without learning labour , or time . While they insist , equally with others , that their property shall be managed by skilful agents , their judicial causes ...
... doctrine but actually went beyond what they were told in the attempt " to explain , commend and reveal " religious matters . The people , he groaned , were doing theology for themselves . 12 In Virginia , the evangelical Episcopalian ...
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 |