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.



Zusammenfassung
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.
Titel
The Gospel Working Up
Untertitel
Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia
EAN
9780190283223
ISBN
978-0-19-028322-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Veröffentlichung
13.01.2000
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
5.79 MB
Anzahl Seiten
288
Jahr
2000
Untertitel
Englisch