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Rally the Scattered Believers : Northern New England's Religious Geography /

Northern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. Using the methods of spatial geography, Shelby M. Balik examines how migrants adapted their understanding of religious community and spi...

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Autor principal: Balik, Shelby M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : churching the northern wilds
  • No schism in the body : the town church in crisis
  • Zion travels : the itinerant enterprise
  • Scrambling for the right : disestablishment and the town church
  • 'Tis all on fire : landscapes of religious community
  • Fairly missionary ground : the Congregationalist turn to itinerancy
  • A city set on a hill : northern New England's new religious geography
  • Conclusion : a place of paradoxes.