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The Great Revival: Beginnings of the Bible Belt

The Great Revival: Beginnings of the Bible Belt

Boles, John B.

Paperback

Series: Religion in the South

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral ChristianityRegional: South

ISBN10: 0813108624
ISBN13: 9780813108629
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Feb 22 1996
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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 contemporary southern thought and life.

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