Doomsayers : Anglo-American prophecy in the age of Revolution /

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The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted both in the primitive worldview of the Old Test...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Juster, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Edición:1st paperback ed.
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
Prophets > United States > History.
Prophecy > Christianity > History.
Prophets > England > History.
Prophètes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Prophétie > Christianisme > Histoire.
Prophètes > Angleterre > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Prophecy > Christianity
Prophets
United States > Church history.
England > Church history.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
Angleterre > Histoire religieuse.
England
United States
Church history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Making of a Prophet
  • 2 Varieties of Prophecy: Fortune- Tellers, Visionists, and Millenarians
  • 3 Body and Soul: The Epistemology of Revelation
  • 4 Millenarian. Politics: Language and the Public Sphere
  • 5 A Rogues' Gallery: Richard Brothers and Nimrod Hughes
  • 6 Women of Revelation: Jemima Wilkinson and Joanna Southcott
  • Epilogue
  • Index

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