Gospel Working Up - Progress and the Pulpit in 19th Century Virginia

Zusatztext Schweiger's story does more than make sense. It may stir many readers to wonder how historians could have got the picture so far wrong for so long. Klappentext The Gospel Working Up 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. Schweiger examines the religious experience both before and after the Civil War! showing how Southern Protestantism became an instrument of spiritual! moral! material! and cultural progress. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Beth Barton Schweiger, Beth Barton (Academic Lecturer Schweiger, Schweiger Beth Barton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2000
• EAN: 9780195111958
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511195-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Religion in America; Religion in America Life (Hard; Religion in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; RELIGION / Christian Ministry / General, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Virginia, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, RELIGION / Christianity / Methodist, RELIGION / Christianity / Baptist, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, Methodist Churches, Christian ministry & pastoral activity, Religious ministry and clergy, Baptist Churches