The Gospel Working Up : Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia.
Title:
The Gospel Working Up : Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia.
Author:
Schweiger, Beth Barton.
ISBN:
9780195354720
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Series:
Religion in America
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Religion in the Nineteenth-Century South -- ONE: Country Preachers -- TWO: City Pastors -- THREE: Reading, Writing, and Religion -- FOUR: Sectionalism and the Rise of Denominations -- FIVE: Pastors and Soldiers -- SIX: Reconstructing Religion -- SEVEN: The Ministerial Profession -- EIGHT: A Call to Order -- NINE: The Divided Mind of New South Pastors -- Epilogue: Religion and Progress in the Nineteenth-Century South -- Appendix: A Note on Sources and Methods -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
This book offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Unlike previous scholars, who examined Southern Protestantism as only a proslavery and pro-Confederate ideology, Schweiger takes a wider view and finds a broad transformation of the social and cultural context of religious experience in the region. She traces several major themes, such as the contrast between rural and urban experience, or the Methodist and Baptist schisms of the 1840's through the lives and careers of 800 clergy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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