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Church in the Wild : Evangelicals in Antebellum America / Brett Malcolm Grainger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674239548
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.8/1 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1642.U5 G73 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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