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Christian Science is one of only two indigenous American religions,
the other being Mormonism. Yet it has not always been examined
seriously within the context of the history of religious ideas and
the development of American religious life. Stephen Gottschalk
fills this void with an examination of Christian Science's root
concepts-the informing vision and the distinctive mission as
formulated by its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. Concentrating on the
quarter-century preceding Eddy's death, a period of phenomenal
growth for Christian Science, Gottschalk challenges the
conventional academic view of the movement as a fringe sect. He
finds instead a serious and distinctive, though radical, religious
teaching that began to flower just as orthodox Protestantism began
to fade. He gives a clear and detailed account of the rancorous
controversies between Christian Science and the various mind-cure
and occult movements with which it is often associated, and
contends that Christian Science appealed to disenchanted
Protestants because of its pragmatic quality-a quality that relates
it to the mainstream of American culture. This title is part of UC
Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest
minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist
dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed
scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.
This title was originally published in 1973.
Born into a traditional culture in 1833, Emanuel Suter cultivated
the art of pottery and expanded markets across the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia, creating a thriving company and leaving
thousands of examples of utilitarian ceramic ware that have
survived down to the present. Drawing on Suter's diary-rich with
meticulous descriptions of his ceramic wares, along with glazing
recipes and the quotidian details of nineteenth-century business-as
well as myriad other primary and secondary sources, Suter's
great-great-grandson Scott Hamilton Suter tells the story of how a
farmer with a seasonal sideline developed into a technologically
advanced entrepreneur who operated a modern industrial company. As
a farmer, Emanuel Suter innovated by adopting new time-saving
equipment; this progressive thinking bled over into his religious
life, as he endeavored to change the traditional way of choosing
ministers by lot and advocated for the formation of Sunday schools
in the Mennonite Church. But Suter largely made his mark as a
potter, and A Potter's Progress is enhanced by nearly two dozen
color images and a close study of the techniques (including kilns
and jigger wheels), products, shop organization, marketing, and
labor of Suter's shops, revealing the revolutionary role they
played in the world of Rockingham County, Virginia, pottery
manufacture. This tightly focused case study of the trials and
triumphs of one craftsman as he moved from a cottage industry to a
full-scale industrial enterprise-prefiguring the market economy
that would characterize the twentieth century-serves as a microcosm
for examining the American spirit of progress in late
nineteenth-century America.
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