Revivalism and Cultural Change
Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States
The history of Christianity in America has been marked by recurring periods of religious revivals or awakenings. In this book, George M. Thomas addresses the economic and political context of evangelical revivalism and its historical linkages with economic expansion and Republicanism in the nineteenth century. Thomas argues that large-scale change results in social movements that articulate new organizations and definitions of individual, society, authority, and cosmos. Drawing on religious newspapers, party policies and agendas, and quantitative analyses of voting patterns and census data, he claims that revivalism in this period framed the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-226-79586-7
- EAN: 9780226795867
- Produktnummer: 1508178
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 246 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.8 cm x D1.6 cm 386 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 386
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
George M. Thomas is professor of sociology at Arizona State University.
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