Ambivalent Churchmen and Evangelical Churchwomen: The Religion of the Episcopal Elite in North Carolina, 1800-1860

by Richard Rankin

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Richard Rankin probes the religious, intellectual, and social lives of North Carolina's antebellum elite to expose the dramatic effect of religious revival in the first half of the nineteenth century. Rankin uses family letters and church records to document an embrace of evangelism's emotionalism by the female upper class, a swift objection to evangelism's egalitarian tenets by the male upper class, and the domestic tension that ensued. Rankin evaluates...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0872498875

ISBN13:9780872498877

Release Date:June 1993

Publisher:University of South Carolina Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Christian Books & Bibles Episcopalian Evangelism Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Protestantism Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies State & Local Theology Women in History

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