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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... . Mittie Hatch, an astute wordsmith, graciously proofed these pages. Portions of chapters 4, 5, and 6 appeared in different form as essays in the Journal of American History, in William L. List of Illustrations Acknowledgments.
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... forms of organization and belief . Within a few years of Jefferson's election in 18oo , it became anachronistic to speak of dissent in America— as if there were still a commonly recognized center against which new or emerging groups ...
... forms , many of them structured in highly undemocratic ways . The Methodists under Francis Asbury , for instance , used authoritarian means to build a church that would not be a respecter of persons . This church faced the curious ...
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 |