The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia

by Beth Barton Schweiger

Overview

The Gospel Working Up offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Schweiger examines the religious experience both before and after the Civil War, showing how Southern Protestantism became an instrument of spiritual, moral, material, and cultural progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195111958
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/10/2000
Series:	Religion in America
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Arkansas

Editorial Reviews

"Schweiger's book is an excellent addition to a growing body of work by a number of recent historians which is breathing new life into the once sclerotic genre of denominational history and relating our understanding of religious movements and institutions to the complex movement of southern history in a more sophisticated way." —Journal of the Early Republic

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