And They All Sang Hallelujah

Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845

von Dickson D Bruce

172 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Winner of the James Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society. For many years, the camp-meeting religion that flourished along the American frontier in the nineteenth century was seen from rather narrow perspectives. To many scholars, the camp-meetings were mainly a social outlet on which was imposed a thin veneer of religion. Others, viewing the annual gatherings as dawn-to-dusk shouting, emphasized emotionalism to the exclusion of religious convictions. Still other misconceptions arose from lack of understanding of this unique southern phenomenon: that the camp-meetings were largely unplanned and varied markedly from place to place; that they were dominated by the traditional Methodist and Baptist versions of Christianity; that they were officially approved by these or other denominations; and that the camp-meetings were "transplants" that grew vigorously on soil already widely cultivated for religion. Professor Dickson D. Bruce Jr. here presents a challenging reinterpretation of the subject. Eschewing any single, simplistic view, he combines approaches from history, social anthropology, and folklore to see more clearly camp-meeting religion itself and the camp-meeting as a part of antebellum southern life. In so doing, he provided a model for many future studies.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Christentum
• ISBN: 9780870493102
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.1981
• Größe: 221 x 141 mm
• Verlag: Longleaf Services on Behalf of U of Tennessee Pres