TY - BOOK AU - Little,Thomas J. TI - The origins of southern evangelicalism: religious revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1760 SN - 9781611172751 AV - BR555.S6 L58 2013eb U1 - 277.57/07 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Columbia, South Carolina PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Evangelicalism KW - Southern States KW - History KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Évangélisme KW - États-Unis (Sud) KW - Histoire KW - 17e siècle KW - 18e siècle KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Ministry KW - Evangelism KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - United States KW - State & Local KW - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) KW - Christianity KW - fast KW - South Carolina KW - Church history KW - Caroline du Sud KW - Histoire religieuse KW - RELIGION / General KW - Religion KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-270) and index; Libertines, sectaries, and enthusiasts : the formation of an evangelical tradition -- True-blue Protestants : religious eclecticism and the Church of England -- A party of seekers : the origins of Southern evangelicalism -- A hammer and a fire : George Whitefield and the first Great Awakening -- The kingdom of heaven : continuing the Great Awakening tradition -- Wrestling with God : Protestant evangelicalism in the Lowcountry and beyond N2 - During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina Lowcountry from both the Old World and elsewhere in the New. Representing a hodgepodge of European religious traditions, they shaped the foundations of a new and distinct plantation society in the British-Atlantic world. The Lords Proprietors of Carolina made vigorous efforts to recruit Nonconformists to their overseas colony by granting settlers considerable freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. Codified in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, this toleration ultimately attracted a substantial number of settlers of many and varying Christian denominations. In this book, the author refutes commonplace beliefs that South Carolina grew spiritually lethargic and indifferent to religion in the colonial era. The author argues that pluralism engendered religious renewal and revival, which developed further after Anglicans in the colony secured legal establishment for their church. The Carolina colony emerged at the fulcrum of an international Protestant awakening that embraced a more emotional, individualistic religious experience and helped to create a transatlantic evangelical movement in the mid-eighteenth century. Offering new perspectives on both early American history and the religious history of the colonial South, this book charts the regional spread of early evangelicalism in the too often neglected South Carolina Lowcountry - the economic and cultural center of the lower southern colonies. Although evangelical Christianity has long been and continues to be the dominant religion of the American South, historians have traditionally described it as a comparatively late-flowering development in British America. Reconstructing the history of religious revivalism in the Lowcountry and placing the subject firmly within an Atlantic world context, the author demonstrates that evangelical Christianity had much earlier beginnings in prerevolutionary southern society than historians have traditionally recognized. -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=652356 ER -