New Sacred Writing and Charisma: The Transformation of Religious Authority in Nineteenth Century America

ISBN-13: 9783847115014 / Angielski

Claudia Jetter

Opis

Mid-nineteenth century America was filled with charismatic leaders and visionaries who produced new sacred writing. The author traces the stories of Mormon founder Joseph Smith Jr., Methodist revivalist Phoebe Palmer and Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and their new text productions to investigate a diverse community that grappled with a perceived loss of religious authority. New sacred writing and the influence of charismatic leadership in antebellum America

O autorze

Claudia Jetter is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Religious and Ideological Issues (EZW) of the German Protestant Church. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century new religious movements and the digital self-help market.