The gospel working up : progress and the pulpit in nineteenth-century Virginia / Beth Barton Schweiger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweiger, Beth Barton, author.

Series:

Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)

Oxford scholarship online.

Religion in America series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baptists--Virginia--Clergy--History--19th century.

Baptists.

Methodist Church--Virginia--Clergy--History--19th century.

Methodist Church.

Virginia--Church history--19th century.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in 19th-century Virginia and, through them, of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028322-X

0-19-773942-3

1-280-52935-0

0-19-535472-9

1-4294-0372-1

OCLC:

476013529