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03901aam a2200433 i 4500 001 DBD6462E0C2C11EAA2E5F95597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191121010049 008 180814t20192019maua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018038067 020 $a 0674919378 020 $a 9780674919372 035 $a (OCoLC)1057239843 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCF $d BDX $d ERASA $d YDX $d HLS $d NJB $d LNT $d CHVBK $d DLC $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 00 $a BR1642.U5 $b G73 2019 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/BR1-BR1725 082 00 $a 270.8/1 $2 23 100 1 $a Grainger, Brett, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008051144 245 10 $a Church in the wild : $b evangelicals in antebellum America / $c Brett Malcolm Grainger. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 271 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a A tolerable idolatry -- The book of nature -- Through nature to nature's god -- Healing springs -- The theology of electricity. 520 $a Since Perry Miller's 1940 essay on the connection between Puritan theology and Transcendentalism, "From Edwards to Emerson," there has been a dominant model for thinking about the relationship between American religion and nature. According to Miller, Emerson and his fellow New England elites were the only ones during the antebellum period to turn to nature for a direct, unmediated access to spirituality; this was part of their protest against the orthodoxy of Protestantism. We would, however, misunderstand the past if we forgot that New England Transcendentalists, as important as they are to American intellectual history, were an elite minority. There were other religious groups who also turned to the field and stream, the stone and the tree, in their everyday religious practice and their theology. Evangelical Christianity was the popular religion of antebellum America. During this period, evangelical relationships to the material world, and to nature at large, were closer to Catholicism than one might expect. Brett Malcolm Grainger makes two important arguments in this book: (1) early republic Evangelicals represent an important, non-derivative, and popular strand of American religious engagement with nature, a story often ignored while focusing on Emerson and Thoreau; and (2) the everyday religion of antebellum American Evangelicals shows us that the Catholic-Protestant divide over real presence needs to be reconsidered. Evangelical enchantment can be seen in field sermons, camp meetings, water cures, outdoor baptisms, and mesmerism. Grainger sheds light on a major religious movement that swept across antebellum America from Virginia, Kentucky, and Appalachia to Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and upstate New York.-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Evangelicalism $z United States $x History. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008119946 650 0 $a Nature $x Religious aspects. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090278 650 0 $a Natural theology. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090266 651 0 $a United States $x Religious life and customs. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140506 650 7 $a Evangelicalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917002 650 7 $a Natural theology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034530 650 7 $a Nature $x Religious aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034594 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Evangelikale Bewegung. $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA. $2 gnd 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217025855.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DBD6462E0C2C11EAA2E5F95597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search