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Pious persuasions : laity and clergy in eighteenth-century New England
- Title
- Pious persuasions : laity and clergy in eighteenth-century New England / Erik R. Seeman.
- Author
- Seeman, Erik R.
- Publication
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BR520 .S44 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 263 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Seeman looks at the piety of ordinary folk, including a Boston housewright; the interplay of magic and religious culture; the changing experience of women; and the persistence of revivalism. His findings supply a fresh perspective on the Great Awakening of the 1740s, which appears not as a historical turning point but rather as one of four major revivals that fostered communal piety. Seeman further examines how pastors and parishioners negotiated their increasingly contentious religious culture when participating in highly charged events: deathbed scenes, rituals of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and religious revivals."
- "Incorporating the widest ranging examination to date of contemporary lay sources - letters, diaries, conversion narratives, and published poems and broadsides - Pious Persuasions is a significant work for Early Americanists, social historians, and students of American religion."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Early America
- Uniform Title
- Early America
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-255) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Lay-Clergy Interactions in Colonial New England -- The Spiritual Labor of John Barnard: A Boston Housewright Constructs His Piety -- "She Died Like Good Old Jacob": Deathbed Scenes and Attitudes toward Death -- The Performance of Piety: Religious Rituals and Their Contested Meanings -- Alternative Practices: Magic, Heterodoxy, and the Margins of Religious Culture -- Earthquakes and Great Awakenings: The Continuity of Revivalism -- The Piety of Experience Richardson: Religion, Politics, and Gender -- Conclusion: Religious Culture and the Origins of the American Revolution.
- ISBN
- 0801862086
- 9780801862083
- LCCN
- 99015429
- OCLC
- ocm41265955
- 41265955
- SCSB-961911
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library