And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0870493108
ISBN13:9780870493102
Release Date:June 1981
Publisher:Univ Tennessee Press
Length:172 Pages
Weight:0.33 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"
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And They All Sang Hallelujah!
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I read this for a book group and thought it would be a dull academic book. Instead, its insights and well written history of a period of American religious history were accessible, easy to read. Although the premises are thought provoking, they are not hard to access.And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Campmeeting Religion 1800-1845
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