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Author Hatch, Nathan O., author.

Title The democratization of American Christianity / Nathan O. Hatch.

Publication Info. New Haven [Connecticut] ; London [England] : Yale University Press, [1989]
©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : illustrations, portraits
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; I. CONTEXT; 1. Introduction: Democracy and Christianity; The Church in an Age of Democratic Revolution; A Passion for Equality; Populist Leaders and Democratic Movements; 2. The Crisis of Authority in Popular Culture; Ferment over Who Should Rule at Home; Revolt against the Professions; Backcountry Dissent; Blurring of Worlds; Individualization of Conscience; Inversion of Authority; II. MASS MOVEMENTS; 3. Storming Heaven by the Back Door; Wreckers, Architects, and Builders; The Withering of Establishments; "A Sea of Sectarian Rivalries."
4. Thundering LegionsThe Christian Movement; The Spartan Mission of Francis Asbury; The Independent Conscience of John Leland; Black Preachers and the Flowering of Afro-American Christianity; The Populist Vision of Joseph Smith; III. AUDIENCE; 5. The Sovereign Audience; The Triumph of Vernacular Preaching; Creating a Mass Religious Culture in Print; Inventing American Gospel Music; 6. The Right to Think for Oneself; The Quest for the Ancient Order; The Crusade against Calvinist Orthodoxy and Control; Sola Scriptura; America, Democracy, and the Millennium; IV. LEGACY.
7. Upward Aspiration and Democratic DissentThe Leaven of Democratic Persuasions; The Allure of Respectability; Firebrands of Democracy; 8. Epilogue: The Recurring Populist Impulse in American Chstianity; Redefining the Second Great Awakening: A Note on the Study of Christianity in the Early Republic; Appendix: A Sampling of Anticlerical and Anti-Calvinist Christian Verse; Notes; Index.
Summary 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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.
United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 0300159560
9780300159561 (ebk)
Standard No. heb40277 hdl

 
    
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