The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia

ISBN-13: 9780195111958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str.

Beth Barton Schweiger

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.