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Church in the Wild - Evangelicals in Antebellum America (Hardcover)
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Church in the Wild - Evangelicals in Antebellum America (Hardcover)
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A religious studies scholar argues that in antebellum America,
evangelicals, not Transcendentalists, connected ordinary Americans
with their spiritual roots in the natural world. We have long
credited Emerson and his fellow Transcendentalists with
revolutionizing religious life in America and introducing a new
appreciation of nature. Breaking with Protestant orthodoxy, these
New Englanders claimed that God could be found not in church but in
forest, fields, and streams. Their spiritual nonconformity had
thrilling implications but never traveled far beyond their circle.
In this essential reconsideration of American faith in the years
leading up to the Civil War, Brett Malcolm Grainger argues that it
was not the Transcendentalists but the evangelical revivalists who
transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and
spiritualized the natural environment. Evangelical Christianity won
believers from the rural South to the industrial North: this was
the true popular religion of the antebellum years. Revivalists went
to the woods not to free themselves from the constraints of
Christianity but to renew their ties to God. Evangelical
Christianity provided a sense of enchantment for those alienated by
a rapidly industrializing world. In forested camp meetings and
riverside baptisms, in private contemplation and public water
cures, in electrotherapy and mesmerism, American evangelicals
communed with nature, God, and one another. A distinctive
spirituality emerged pairing personal piety with a mystical
relation to nature. As Church in the Wild reveals, the revivalist
attitude toward nature and the material world, which echoed that of
Catholicism, spread like wildfire among Christians of all
backgrounds during the years leading up to the Civil War.
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