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

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The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia - Schweiger, Beth Barton
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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 ...

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The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195111958

Hardcover