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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Nathan O. Hatch. To Julie and Gregg, David and Beth, with love “Tendencies, which had found no political room to unfold themselves.
Nathan O. Hatch. To Julie and Gregg , David and Beth , with love " Tendencies , which had found no political room to.
Nathan O. Hatch. " Tendencies , which had found no political room to unfold themselves in other lands , wrought here without restraint . . . . Every theological vagabond and peddler may drive here his bungling trade , without passport or ...
... political, legal, or religious, would have to appear to be the people's choice.6 “In the early nineteenth century,” Sean Wilentz has written, “to be an American citizen was by definition to be a republican, the inheritor of a ...
... political , legal , or religious , would have to appear to be the people's choice . 6 " In the early nineteenth century , " Sean Wilentz has written , " to be an American citizen was by definition to be a republican , the inheritor of a ...
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 |