Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening: Church and Society in Early National Baltimore

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1986 - 236 oldal
This book explores the varied terrain of religious activity in early national Baltimore. It examines the development and consequences of the voluntary church system in one urban center during the ferment and change of the formative age for American religion.

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Membership
19
Leadership
28
Clergy
38
Discipline
52
Worship
65
The Militant Churches The Effects of Religious Competition
81
Revivalism
83
Ecumenism
100
Notes in Methodology
142
Vertical Categories By Rank and Trade
146
Estimated Dates of Establishment of Houses of Worship
149
Clergy of Baltimore 17901830
151
Tables
157
Notes
173
Select Bibliography
202
Index
230

Schism
117
The Baltimore Awakening in Perspective
134

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64. oldal - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
186. oldal - Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977); and Barbara Welter, Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976), which includes her essay "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860," originally published in American Quarterly 18 (1966): 151-174.
39. oldal - Americans have a sincere faith in their religion ; for who can search the human heart ? but I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or to a party, but it belongs to the whole nation, and to every rank of society.
47. oldal - But in one point, my dear brother, I am a little afraid both the Doctor and you differ from me. I study to be little : you study to be great. I creep : you strut along. I found a school : you a college ! nay, and call it after your own names ! O beware, do not seek to be something ! Let me be nothing, and 'Christ be all in all ! ' One instance of this, of your greatness, has given me great concern.
40. oldal - It is only to trust nobody ; to befriend no one ; to get every thing, and save all we get ; to stint ourselves and everybody belonging to us ; to be the friend of no man, and have no man for our friend ; to heap interest...
180. oldal - Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972); a more compact account is by Winthrop S.
18. oldal - Our colored preachers and official members shall have all the privileges which are usual to others in the district and quarterly conferences, where the usages of the country do not forbid it.
199. oldal - A Sermon, preached before the Society for the Education of Pious Young Men for the Ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at the Fifth Annual Meeting, held in Christ's Church, Alexandria, on the 30th of October, 1823.

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