The origins of southern evangelicalism : religious revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1760 /
The origins of southern evangelicalism :: religious revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1760 /

During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina Lowcountry from both the Old World and elsewhere in the New. Representing a hodgepodge of European religious traditions, they shaped the foundations of a new and distinct plantati...

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1. Verfasser: Little, Thomas J. (Thomas James), 1963-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2013]
Schlagworte:
1600-1799
Evangelicalism > Southern States > History > 17th century.
Evangelicalism > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Évangélisme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Évangélisme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Evangelism.
RELIGION > History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Evangelicalism
South Carolina > Church history > 17th century.
South Carolina > Church history > 18th century.
Caroline du Sud > Histoire religieuse > 17e siècle.
Caroline du Sud > Histoire religieuse > 18e siècle.
South Carolina
Southern States
RELIGION / General
Religion
Church history
History
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Zusammenfassung:During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina Lowcountry from both the Old World and elsewhere in the New. Representing a hodgepodge of European religious traditions, they shaped the foundations of a new and distinct plantation society in the British-Atlantic world. The Lords Proprietors of Carolina made vigorous efforts to recruit Nonconformists to their overseas colony by granting settlers considerable freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. Codified in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, this toleration ultimately attracted a substantial number of settlers of many and varying Christian denominations. In this book, the author refutes commonplace beliefs that South Carolina grew spiritually lethargic and indifferent to religion in the colonial era. The author argues that pluralism engendered religious renewal and revival, which developed further after Anglicans in the colony secured legal establishment for their church. The Carolina colony emerged at the fulcrum of an international Protestant awakening that embraced a more emotional, individualistic religious experience and helped to create a transatlantic evangelical movement in the mid-eighteenth century. Offering new perspectives on both early American history and the religious history of the colonial South, this book charts the regional spread of early evangelicalism in the too often neglected South Carolina Lowcountry - the economic and cultural center of the lower southern colonies. Although evangelical Christianity has long been and continues to be the dominant religion of the American South, historians have traditionally described it as a comparatively late-flowering development in British America. Reconstructing the history of religious revivalism in the Lowcountry and placing the subject firmly within an Atlantic world context, the author demonstrates that evangelical Christianity had much earlier beginnings in prerevolutionary southern society than historians have traditionally recognized. --
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 280 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-270) and index.
ISBN:9781611172751
1611172756
1299991513
9781299991514

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