The Great Revival

by Boles, John B.

• ISBN13: 9780813108629
• ISBN10: 0813108624
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-02-22
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

" Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improving society. As Boles shows in this landmark study, the effect of the Revival was to throw over the region a conservative cast that remains dominant in contemporary southern thought and life.

Author Biography

John B. Boles is Cline Professor of History at Rice University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
The Setting	p. 1
The Feeling of Crisis	p. 12
The Theory of Providential Deliverance	p. 25
Portents of Revival	p. 36
Kentucky Ablaze	p. 51
The South Conquered	p. 70
The Changing Revival Image	p. 90
Homiletics and Hymnology	p. 111
A Theology of Individualism	p. 125
Unity and Schism	p. 143
The Economic and Political Thought of Southern Revivalism	p. 165
Revivalism and The Southern Evangelical Mind	p. 183
Selected Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 223
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