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Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England´s Religious Geography
Shelby M. Balik
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Description for Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England´s Religious Geography
Hardback. Northern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. This book examines how migrants adapted their understanding of religious community and spiritual space to survive in the harsh physical surroundings of the region. Series: Religion in North America. Num Pages: 316 pages, 3 b&w illus., 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 628.
Northern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. Using the methods of spatial geography, Shelby M. Balik examines how migrants adapted their understanding of religious community and spiritual space to survive in the harsh physical surroundings of the region. The notions of boundaries, place, and identity they developed became the basis for spreading New England's deeply rooted spiritual culture, even as it opened the way to a new evangelical age.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Series
Religion in North America
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253012104
SKU
V9780253012104
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99-50
About Shelby M. Balik
Shelby M. Balik is Assistant Professor of American History at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Reviews for Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England´s Religious Geography
[A]n ambitious and engaging piece of scholarship. . . Rally the Scattered Believers promises to complement classic and much-respected works on Vermont's religious communities during this period. . . More significant than the book's engagement with that earlier scholarship is its contribution to recent and ongoing scholarly discussion about the place of religion in early American life. Balik's New England is a religious place. . . [H]er interesting new book provides an alternative to other recent books that see more of the secular than the sacred in America's past.83.1 Winter/Spring 2015
Vermont History
I strongly recommend Balik's book for those studying colonial religious landscapes and heritages not only in New England, but in the nineteenth-century religious diasporas that swept the continent with varying mixes of European colonials and also African and Asian heritages.
Stanley D. Brunn
University of Kentucky
Rally the Scattered Believers is an important new interpretation of how religious change shaped American cultural identity in the early republic.
Journal of American History
[A] deeply researched and meticulously sourced book. . . [R]eading Rally the Scattered Believers helped me to consider anew the centrality of place—and the differing ways that religious organizations organize space—in understanding religious history.9/22/14
Religion in American History
The book's meticulous coverage of the spread of these faiths and its interpretation through the lens of geography is a strength. . . . Recommended.
Choice
Using church and town records, the personal writings and correspondence of laity and clergy, books, pamphlets, and religious periodicals, Balik has written an engaging, ground-level religious history with larger implications.
Journal of the Early Republic
Shelby Balik's deeply researched 'Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography' offers a finely grained picture of that era of burgeoning development. . . . Balik's book delivers one of the best histories of precisely what the 'Second Great Awakening' amounted to in northern New England. Dec 2015
American Historical Review
Balik's exhaustively researched book represents the most comprehensive and important study of northern New England's religious history published to date. It is also a significant contribution to a small body of scholarship on the spatial study of religion. . . . In sum, this is a major work of extraordinary scholarship.
Church History
Vermont History
I strongly recommend Balik's book for those studying colonial religious landscapes and heritages not only in New England, but in the nineteenth-century religious diasporas that swept the continent with varying mixes of European colonials and also African and Asian heritages.
Stanley D. Brunn
University of Kentucky
Rally the Scattered Believers is an important new interpretation of how religious change shaped American cultural identity in the early republic.
Journal of American History
[A] deeply researched and meticulously sourced book. . . [R]eading Rally the Scattered Believers helped me to consider anew the centrality of place—and the differing ways that religious organizations organize space—in understanding religious history.9/22/14
Religion in American History
The book's meticulous coverage of the spread of these faiths and its interpretation through the lens of geography is a strength. . . . Recommended.
Choice
Using church and town records, the personal writings and correspondence of laity and clergy, books, pamphlets, and religious periodicals, Balik has written an engaging, ground-level religious history with larger implications.
Journal of the Early Republic
Shelby Balik's deeply researched 'Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography' offers a finely grained picture of that era of burgeoning development. . . . Balik's book delivers one of the best histories of precisely what the 'Second Great Awakening' amounted to in northern New England. Dec 2015
American Historical Review
Balik's exhaustively researched book represents the most comprehensive and important study of northern New England's religious history published to date. It is also a significant contribution to a small body of scholarship on the spatial study of religion. . . . In sum, this is a major work of extraordinary scholarship.
Church History