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The gospel working up : progress and the pulpit in nineteenth-century Virginia /

This volume offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in 19th-century Virginia and, through them, of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schweiger, Beth Barton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Colección:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Religion in the Nineteenth-Century South; ONE: Country Preachers; TWO: City Pastors; THREE: Reading, Writing, and Religion; FOUR: Sectionalism and the Rise of Denominations; FIVE: Pastors and Soldiers; SIX: Reconstructing Religion; SEVEN: The Ministerial Profession; EIGHT: A Call to Order; NINE: The Divided Mind of New South Pastors; Epilogue: Religion and Progress in the Nineteenth-Century South; Appendix: A Note on Sources and Methods; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index