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Author Schweiger, Beth Barton

Title The gospel working up : progress and the pulpit in nineteenth-century Virginia / Beth Barton Schweiger
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) : illustrations
Series Religion in America series
Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Contents Introduction: Religion in the Nineteenth-Century South; ONE: Country Preachers; TWO: City Pastors; THREE: Reading, Writing, and Religion; FOUR: Sectionalism and the Rise of Denominations; FIVE: Pastors and Soldiers; SIX: Reconstructing Religion; SEVEN: The Ministerial Profession; EIGHT: A Call to Order; NINE: The Divided Mind of New South Pastors; Epilogue: Religion and Progress in the Nineteenth-Century South; Appendix: A Note on Sources and Methods; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary This volume offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in 19th-century Virginia and, through them, of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index
Notes English
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Subject Baptists -- Virginia -- Clergy -- History -- 19th century
Methodist Church -- Virginia -- Clergy -- History -- 19th century
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Baptists -- Clergy
Methodist Church -- Clergy
SUBJECT Virginia -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject Virginia
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99017992
ISBN 1429403721
9781429403726
9786610529353
6610529353
1280529350
9781280529351
0195354729
9780195354720