Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-273) and index.
Contents
The common man's Utopia -- The European background -- The Puritans in New England -- The Quakers in America -- The Great Awakening -- The rise of Methodism -- American Methodism -- The eve of the nineteenth century -- The fruit of revivals -- Revivalism : exponents and critics -- The Unitarian movement -- Anti-Masonry -- The American Home Missionary Society -- The American Tract Society -- The American Bible Society -- The American Sunday School Union -- The observance of the Sabbath -- The Temperance Movement -- The church and the community -- Religious nativism -- The old world against the new world -- The abolition crusade -- Caesar or Christ.