ISBN:
0813170656
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9780813170657
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 236 p., [4] p. of plates
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ill., maps
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23 cm
Edition:
Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2001 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
Series Statement:
Religion in the South 1
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Parallel Title:
Print version Great Revival
Keywords:
Revivals
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Revivals Southern States
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Revivals
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Revivals
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Revivals
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RELIGION ; Christian Ministry ; Evangelism
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Revivals
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Church history
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Erweckungsbewegung
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Southern States Church history.
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Southern States Church history
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Southern States
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Southern States Church history
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Southern States Church history
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Southern States Church history.
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Southern States
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USA ; Südstaaten
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books Church history
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USA
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Erweckungsbewegung
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Geschichte 1787-1865
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USA
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Erweckungsbewegung
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Geschichte 1787-1865
Abstract:
Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improving society. As Boles shows in this landmark study, the effect of the Revival was to throw over the region a conservative cast that remains dominant in c
Abstract:
The setting -- The feeling of crisis -- The theory of providential deliverance -- Portents of revival -- Kentucky ablaze -- The South conquered -- The changing revival image -- Homiletics & hymnology -- A theology of individualism -- Unity & schism -- The economic & political thought of Southern revivalism -- Revivalism & the Southern evangelical mind.
Note:
Rev. ed. of: The Great Revival, 1787-1805. 1972
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index
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Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2001
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