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Earnestly Contending
Dickson D. Bruce
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Description for Earnestly Contending
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture. Despite their enormous normative power, these still-evolving ideals--themselves partly religious in origin--ran up against deeply entrenched concerns about the integrity of religious faith and commitment and the role of religion in society. The resulting tensions between these ideals and desires for religious consensus and coherence would remain unresolved throughout the period.
Focusing on that era’s interdenominational competition, Bruce explores the possibilities for and ... Read more
In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture. Despite their enormous normative power, these still-evolving ideals--themselves partly religious in origin--ran up against deeply entrenched concerns about the integrity of religious faith and commitment and the role of religion in society. The resulting tensions between these ideals and desires for religious consensus and coherence would remain unresolved throughout the period.
Focusing on that era’s interdenominational competition, Bruce explores the possibilities for and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813933634
SKU
V9780813933634
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About Dickson D. Bruce
Dickson D. Bruce Jr., Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Irvine, USA is the author most recently of The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America and The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865 (Virginia).
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