The Great Revival : beginnings of the Bible belt / John B. Boles.

By:

Boles, John B

Contributor(s):

Boles, John B. Great Revival, 1787-1805

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Religion in the South ; 1.Publication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, γ̐ư1996. Publication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0813170656
9780813170657

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Great Revival.DDC classification:

269/.2/0975 20

LOC classification:

BV3773 .B65 1996eb

Other classification:

11.55
15.87
7,26

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Revised edition of: The Great Revival, 1787-1805. 1972.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.

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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.

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