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Grainger, Brett Malcolm

Church in the Wild : Evangelicals in Antebellum America / Brett Malcolm Grainger. - 1 online resource (250 p.)

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. A TOLERABLE IDOLATRY -- 2. THE BOOK OF NATURE -- 3. THROUGH NATURE TO NATURE’S GOD -- 4. HEALING SPRINGS -- 5. THE THEOLOGY OF ELECTRICITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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Emerson and the Transcendentalists get credit for revolutionizing religious life in America by introducing a new appreciation of nature. But in this reconsideration of faith in the antebellum period, Brett Malcolm Grainger argues that it was Evangelical revivalists who transformed everyday religious life and spiritualized the natural environment.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780674239548

Standard No.: 10.4159/9780674239548 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Evangelicalism--History.--United States
Natural theology.
Nature--Religious aspects.
RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant.

LC Class. No.: BR1642.U5 / G73 2019eb

Dewey Class. No.: 270.8/1