Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut's Churches, 1790-1840 - Couverture rigide

Buggeln, Gretchen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1584653221 ISBN 13 : 9781584653226

Editeur : University Press of New England, 2003

Synopsis

Following the American Revolution, the majority of Connecticut's religious societies tore down their boxy eighteenth-century meetinghouses and replaced them with spired churches. Because these new churches evoked a myth of tightly-bound communities sharing democratic values and faith in God, they have often been romanticized as emblems of a bygone era of pastoral serenity. Yet, New England of the early nineteenth century - and its religious life in particular - was anything but tranquil. Revivalism, evangelicalism, and religious pluralism meshed with social, economic, and political dislocation to create a volatile period in which Christianity's place was uncertain. This study argues that religious belief and practice, altered in substance and even more so in style by evangelicalism, revival, and a pervasive culture of sensibility, called for new notions of worship. As the most striking buildings in many Connecticut towns, these churches tell us what citizens of the early republic thought was important, and what they wanted visitors to find remarkable in a distinctive American landscape.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gretchen Buggeln is Assistant Professor, Winterthur Program In Early American Culture, and Director of the Winterthur Research Fellowship Program. She has written numerous articles on the nineteenth-century religious landscape of Connecticut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of New England
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1584653221
• ISBN 13: 9781584653226
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible