The gospel working up : progress and the pulpit in nineteenth-century Virginia / Beth Barton Schweiger
- Author
- Schweiger, Beth Barton
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Introduction: Religion in the Nineteenth-Century South; ONE: Country Preachers; TWO: City Pastors; THREE: Reading, Writing, and Religion; FOUR: Sectionalism and the Rise of Denominations; FIVE: Pastors and Soldiers; SIX: Reconstructing Religion; SEVEN: The Ministerial Profession; EIGHT: A Call to Order; NINE: The Divided Mind of New South Pastors; Epilogue: Religion and Progress in the Nineteenth-Century South; Appendix: A Note on Sources and Methods; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Summary
- This volume offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in 19th-century Virginia and, through them, of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked.
- Subject(s)
- 1800-1899
- Baptists—Virginia—Clergy—History—19th century
- Methodist Church—Virginia—Clergy—History—19th century
- Église méthodiste—Virginie—Clergé—Histoire—19e siècle
- RELIGION—Christianity—History
- Baptists—Clergy
- Methodist Church—Clergy
- Virginia—Church history—19th century
- Virginie—Histoire religieuse—19e siècle
- Virginia
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 1429403721 (electronic bk.)
9781429403726 (electronic bk.)
9786610529353
6610529353
0195111958 (Cloth)
9780195111958
1280529350
9781280529351
0195354729
9780195354720 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index.
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