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To Walk the Earth Again - The Politics of Resurrection in Early America (Hardcover)
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To Walk the Earth Again - The Politics of Resurrection in Early America (Hardcover)
Series: RELIGION IN AMERICA SERIES
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The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in
bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal
and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the
environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores
the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about
the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written
between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. By reading
histories, epic poetry, funeral sermons, and scientific tracts
alongside works of eschatological exegesis, Trigg challenges the
conventional scholarly assumption that Protestantism's rejection of
purgatory prepared the way for the individualization and
secularization of Western attitudes towards mortality. Puritans,
Anglicans, Quakers, and radicals looked to resurrection to
understand their communities' prospects in the uncertain terrain of
colonial America. Their belief that political identities and
religious duties did not expire with their mortal bodies but were
carried over into the next life shaped their positions on a wide
variety of issues, including the limits of ecclesiastical and civil
power, the relationship of humanity to the natural world, and the
emerging rhetoric of racial difference. In the early national and
antebellum periods, secular and Christian reformers drew on the
idea of resurrection to imagine how American republicanism might
transform society and politics and ameliorate the human form
itself. By taking early modern Protestant beliefs seriously, Trigg
unfolds new perspectives on their mutually constitutive visions of
earthly and resurrected existence.
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