The Great Revival : beginnings of the Bible belt /

The Great Revival : beginnings of the Bible belt /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Boles, John B.
Imprint:	Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, γ̐ư1996.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Religion in the South ; 1 Religion in the South ; 1.
Subject:	Revivals -- Southern States. Revivals. Southern States -- Church history. Southern States. Electronic books. Church history.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113443

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Other uniform titles:	Boles, John B. Great Revival, 1787-1805.
ISBN:	0813170656 9780813170657 0813108624
Notes:	Revised edition of: The Great Revival, 1787-1805. 1972. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Boles, John B. Great Revival. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996 0813108624 Print version: Boles, John B. Great Revival. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, γ̐ư1996 0813108624

Table of 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.