The Great Revival : Beginnings of the Bible Belt

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Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boles, John B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Revivals.
RELIGION > Christianity > Pentecostal & Charismatic.
Reveils (Religion) > États-Unis (Sud)
Revivals > Southern States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire religieuse.
Southern States > Church history.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improving society. As Boles shows in this landmark study, the effect of the Revival was to throw over the region a conservative cast that remains dominant in c.
Physical Description:1 online resource (260 pages).
ISBN:9780813148571

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