Revival Revolution And Religion In Early Virginia

Author : Edwin Scott Gaustad
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 9780879350765
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revival, Revolution, and Religion in Early Virginia written by Edwin Scott Gaustad and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Virginia is rarely thought of as a religious colony, by the end of the seventeenth century, the Church of England was stronger in Virginia than anywhere else in North America. This study examines religion in Virginia from about 1750 to 1800, focusing on the rise of dissenting religions, the religious life of different segments of colonial Virginia society, the connection between religious controversy and the American Revolution, and the effect of the Revolution on religion in Virginia. Revival, Revolution, and Religion in Early Virginia tells the story of Virginia's dramatic transformation from a colony with an official religion to a new state where church and government were separated by law, a separation reflected in the U.S. Constitution.

Author : Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300148259
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Awakening written by Thomas S. Kidd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield as well as many previously unknown preachers, prophets, and penitents.The Great Awakening helped create the evangelical movement, which heavily emphasized the individual’s experience of salvation and the Holy Spirit’s work in revivals. By giving many evangelicals radical notions of the spiritual equality of all people, the revivals helped breed the democratic style that would come to characterize the American republic. Kidd carefully separates the positions of moderate supporters of the revivals from those of radical supporters, and he delineates the objections of those who completely deplored the revivals and their wildly egalitarian consequences. The battles among these three camps, the author shows, transformed colonial America and ultimately defined the nature of the evangelical movement.

Author : Wesley Marsh Gewehr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Awakening in Virginia, 1740-1790 written by Wesley Marsh Gewehr and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kirk Mariner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735995700
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revival's Children written by Kirk Mariner and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern Shore of Virginia-detached from and sometimes forgotten by the rest of the state, a pleasant rural place where life is noticeably slower and more relaxed, though the distance to the great cities of the Northeast is not great. Quaint country churches dot the landscape and dominate the view of its many villages, some of them erected when the Old Dominion was still a colony of England.This book is the story of religion on the Eastern Shore. Here in microcosm are many of the same forces and movements that molded the religion of the entire nation: the Colonial establishment, the camp meetings and revivals of the Second Great Awakening, the bitter battle over slavery, the emergence of the black churches, the Holiness movement, pentacostalism, and the rich diversity of the present scene right up to 1978. Among the well-known figures who are part of this pageant are Francis Makemie, founder of the first American presbytery, Francis Asbury, the pioneer Methodist bishop, James Cannon, Jr., the controversial temperance leader and power in Virginia politics. These and a host of colorful local characters come alive in these pages.As the title suggests, it was primarily the revivalistic religions that won the Eastern Shore, and foremost among them the Methodists. The Shore is, in fact, unusual is being one of the few areas in the nation where Methodism predominates.Revival's Children is really two books in one. The first part is the narrative of the founding and unfolding of Christianity on the peninsula. The second is a catalog of every religious congregation known to have existed on the Shore, Christian and Jewish, Protestant and Catholic, black and white, since 1624. Over 300 separate congregations are traced individually, and located on detailed maps.

Author : Paul Rasor
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813931185
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Jamestown to Jefferson written by Paul Rasor and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jamestown to Jefferson sheds new light on the contexts surrounding Thomas Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom—and on the emergence of the American understanding of religious freedom—by examining its deep roots in colonial Virginia’s remarkable religious diversity. Challenging traditional assumptions about life in early Virginia, the essays in this volume show that the colony was more religious, more diverse, and more tolerant than commonly supposed. The presence of groups as disparate as Quakers, African and African American slaves, and Presbyterians, alongside the established Anglicans, generated a dynamic tension between religious diversity and attempts at hegemonic authority that was apparent from Virginia’s earliest days. The contributors, all renowned scholars of Virginia history, treat in detail the complex interactions among Virginia’s varied religious groups, both in and out of power, as well as the seismic changes unleashed by the Statute’s adoption in 1786. From Jamestown to Jefferson suggests that the daily religious practices and struggles that took place in the town halls, backwoods settlements, plantation houses, and slave quarters that dotted the colonial Virginia landscape helped create a social and political space within which a new understanding of religious freedom, represented by Jefferson’s Statute, could emerge. Contributors:Edward L. Bond, Alabama A&M University * Richard E. Bond, Virginia Wesleyan College * Thomas E. Buckley, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University/Graduate Theological Union * Daniel L. Dreisbach, American University, School of Public Affairs * Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University * Monica Najar, Lehigh University * Paul Rasor, Virginia Wesleyan College * Brent Tarter, Library of Virginia

Author : John A. Ragosta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199779925
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellspring of Liberty written by John A. Ragosta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom. This profound transformation, as John A. Ragosta shows in this book, arose not from a new-found cultural tolerance. Rather, as the Revolution approached, Virginia's political establishment needed the support of the religious dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, for the mobilization effort. Dissenters seized this opportunity to insist on freedom of religion in return for their mobilization. Their demands led to a complex and extended negotiation in which the religious establishment slowly and grudgingly offered just enough reforms to maintain the crucial support of the dissenters. After the war, when dissenters' support was no longer needed, the establishment leaders sought to recapture control, but found they had seriously miscalculated: wartime negotiations had politicized the dissenters. As a result dissenters' demands for the separation of church and state triumphed over the establishment's efforts and Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was adopted. Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal, and previously underappreciated, role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today.

Author : Patricia U. Bonomi Professor of History New York University (Emerita)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199729115
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Cope of Heaven : Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America written by Patricia U. Bonomi Professor of History New York University (Emerita) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. Looking at the middle and southern colonies as well as at Puritan New England, Bonomi finds an abundance of religious vitality through the colonial years among clergy and churchgoers of diverse religious background. The book also explores the tightening relationship between religion and politics and illuminates the vital role religion played in the American Revolution. A perennial backlist title first published in 1986, this updated edition includes a new preface on research in the field on African Americans, Indians, women, the Great Awakening, and Atlantic history and how these impact her interpretations.

Author : J. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137327928
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607-1786 written by J. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions.

Author : Virginia State Library. Archives Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Separation of Church and State in Virginia written by Virginia State Library. Archives Division and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Howard Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611477158
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Great Awakening written by John Howard Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and in recent decades it has been challenged as having happened at all, being either an exaggeration or an “invention.” The First Great Awakening expands the movement’s geographical, theological, and sociopolitical scope. Rather than focus exclusively on the clerical elites, as earlier studies have done, it deals with them alongside ordinary people, and includes the experiences of women, African Americans, and Indians as the observers and participants they were. It challenges prevailing scholarly opinion concerning what the revivals were and what they meant to the formation of American religious identity and culture. Cover image: NPG 131, George Whitefield by John Wollaston, oil on canvas, circa 1742. © National Portrait Gallery, London