Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the world.
Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kathryn Gin Lum is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She received her PhD in History from Yale and her BA in History from Stanford. She is an Annenberg Faculty Fellow (2012-14), is affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and the Department of History (by courtesy), and organizes the American Religions Workshop at Stanford.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * A Note on the Text * List of Illustrations * Introduction - Damned Nation? * Part One - Doctrine and Dissemination * Chapter One - "Salvation" vs. "Damnation": Doctrinal Controversies in the Early Republic * Chapter Two - "His blood covers me!": Disseminating Damnation in the Second Great Awakening * Part Two - Adaptation and Dissent * Chapter Three - "Oh, deliver me from being contentedly guilty": Laypeople and the Fear of Hell * Chapter Four - "Ideas, opinions, can not damn the soul": Antebellum Dissent against Damnation * Part Three - Deployment and Denouement * Chapter Five - "Slavery Destroys Immortal Souls": Deployment of Damnation in the Slavery Controversy * Chapter Six - "Our men die well": Damnation, Death, and the Civil War * Epilogue * Notes
* Acknowledgments * A Note on the Text * List of Illustrations * Introduction - Damned Nation? * Part One - Doctrine and Dissemination * Chapter One - "Salvation" vs. "Damnation": Doctrinal Controversies in the Early Republic * Chapter Two - "His blood covers me!": Disseminating Damnation in the Second Great Awakening * Part Two - Adaptation and Dissent * Chapter Three - "Oh, deliver me from being contentedly guilty": Laypeople and the Fear of Hell * Chapter Four - "Ideas, opinions, can not damn the soul": Antebellum Dissent against Damnation * Part Three - Deployment and Denouement * Chapter Five - "Slavery Destroys Immortal Souls": Deployment of Damnation in the Slavery Controversy * Chapter Six - "Our men die well": Damnation, Death, and the Civil War * Epilogue * Notes
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