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Church in the wild : Evangelicals in antebellum America / Brett Malcolm Grainger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grainger, Brett, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evangelicalism--United States--History.
- Evangelicalism.
- Nature--Religious aspects.
- Nature.
- Natural theology.
- United States--Religious life and customs.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674239562
- 0674239563
- 9780674239548
- 0674239547
- OCLC:
- 1091191286
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