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And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870493102)
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xWinner 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 of religious convictions. Still other misconceptions arose from lack of understanding of this unique southern phenomenon: that the camp-meetings were largely unplanned and varied markedly from place to place; that they were dominated by the traditional Methodist and Baptist versions of Christianity; that they were officially approved by these or other denominations; and that the camp-meetings were "transplants" that grew vigorously on soil already widely cultivated for religion.
Professor Dickson D. Bruce Jr. here presents a challenging reinterpretation of the subject. Eschewing any single, simplistic view, he combines approaches from history, social anthropology, and folklore to see more clearly camp-meeting religion itself and the camp-meeting as a part of antebellum southern life. In so doing, he provided a model for many future studies.
Author: Dickson D. Jr. Bruce
ISBN-10: 0870493108
ISBN-13: 9780870493102
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1981
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.26w x 0.55d
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 of religious convictions. Still other misconceptions arose from lack of understanding of this unique southern phenomenon: that the camp-meetings were largely unplanned and varied markedly from place to place; that they were dominated by the traditional Methodist and Baptist versions of Christianity; that they were officially approved by these or other denominations; and that the camp-meetings were "transplants" that grew vigorously on soil already widely cultivated for religion.
Professor Dickson D. Bruce Jr. here presents a challenging reinterpretation of the subject. Eschewing any single, simplistic view, he combines approaches from history, social anthropology, and folklore to see more clearly camp-meeting religion itself and the camp-meeting as a part of antebellum southern life. In so doing, he provided a model for many future studies.
Author: Dickson D. Jr. Bruce
ISBN-10: 0870493108
ISBN-13: 9780870493102
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1981
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.26w x 0.55d
By Dickson D. Jr. Bruce
xDickson "Dave" Davies Bruce Jr. (1946-2014) was a professor of history professor at the University of California at Irvine for more than thirty-five years. He also served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and as Director of the Program in Comparative Cultures at UC Irvine. His research focused on the cultural and intellectual history of African Americans.
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