A Divinity for All Persuasions
Almanacs and Early American Religious Life
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2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-066958-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-066958-4 (ISBN)
A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the religious signifiance of early America's most ubiquitous popular genre. Other than a Bible and perhaps a few schoolbooks and sermons, almanacs were the only printed items most Americans owned before 1820. Purchased annually, the almanac was a calendar and astrologically-based medical handbook surrounded by poetry, essays, anecdotes, and a variety of practical information.
Employing a wealth of archival material, T.J. Tomlin analyzes the pan-Protestant sensibility distributed through the almanac's pages between 1730 and 1820. By disseminating a collection of Protestant concepts regarding God's existence, divine revelation, the human condition, and the afterlife, almanacs played an unparalleled role in early American religious life. Influenced by readers' opinions and printers' pragmatism, the religious content of everyday print supports an innovative interpretation of early American cultural and religious history. In sharp contrast to a historiography centered on intra-Protestant competition, Tomlin shows that most early Americans relied on a handful of Protestant "essentials" rather than denominational specifics to define and organize their religious lives.
Employing a wealth of archival material, T.J. Tomlin analyzes the pan-Protestant sensibility distributed through the almanac's pages between 1730 and 1820. By disseminating a collection of Protestant concepts regarding God's existence, divine revelation, the human condition, and the afterlife, almanacs played an unparalleled role in early American religious life. Influenced by readers' opinions and printers' pragmatism, the religious content of everyday print supports an innovative interpretation of early American cultural and religious history. In sharp contrast to a historiography centered on intra-Protestant competition, Tomlin shows that most early Americans relied on a handful of Protestant "essentials" rather than denominational specifics to define and organize their religious lives.
T.J. Tomlin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado.
Introduction
Part I: An Annual Friend
Chapter One: Almanacs
Chapter Two: Astrology
Part II: The Liturgy of Popular Culture
Chapter Three: Death
Chapter Four: Authority
Chapter Five: Religion
Part III: Non-Protestants
Chapter Six: Catholics
Chapter Seven: Others
Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.03.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Religion in America |
Zusatzinfo | 11 illus. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 231 mm |
Gewicht | 340 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-066958-6 / 0190669586 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-066958-4 / 9780190669584 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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