Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination
Autor Robert H. Abzugen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 aug 1995
day. Woman's rights activists proclaimed the case for sexual equality. This colorful text brilliantly reassesses the religious roots of these antebellum reform movements through a series of penetrating profiles of key men and women who sought to remake their worlds in sacred terms. Arguing that we
cannot understand American reform movements unless we understand the sacred significance reformers bestowed on the worldly arenas of politics, society, and the economy, Abzug presents these men and women in their own words, placing their cherished ideals and their often heated squabbles within the
context of their millennial and sometimes apocalyptic sense of America's role in the cosmic drama. Tracing the lasting impact of what began as a peculiarly Protestant, largely New England, style of social action on the uniquely American traditions of activism that flourish today, Cosmos Crumbling is
invaluable for helping students of American and religious history understand the myriad ways in which the quest for enlightenment and salvation continues to shape American politics.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780195045680
ISBN-10: 0195045688
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0195045688
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Descriere
In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awash in political and social reform movements. Abolitionists stormed against the cruelties of slavery. Temperance zealots hounded producers and consumers of strong drink. Sabbatarians fought to make Sunday an officially recognized sacred day. Woman's rights activists proclaimed the case for sexual equality. This colorful text brilliantly reassesses the religious roots of these antebellum reform movements through aseries of penetrating profiles of key men and women who sought to remake their worlds in sacred terms. Arguing that we cannot understand American reform movements unless we understand the sacred significance reformers bestowed on the worldly arenas of politics, society, and the economy, Abzugpresents these men and women in their own words, placing their cherished ideals and their often heated squabbles within the context of their millennial and sometimes apocalyptic sense of America's role in the cosmic drama. Tracing the lasting impact of what began as a peculiarly Protestant, largely New England, style of social action on the uniquely American traditions of activism that flourish today, Cosmos Crumbling is invaluable for helping students of American and religious historyunderstand the myriad ways in which the quest for enlightenment and salvation continues to shape American politics.
Recenzii
A fascinating read and a wonderful window on an important phenomenon.
[A]ll students of American culture in the nineteenth century...will now rely on Cosmos Crumbling as the most useful narrative overview of the role played by religious imagination in the unfolding of the ante-bellum reform.
...a useful resource for students of religion and politics...
...an original and provocative analysis of the religious roots of early nineteenth century reform movements....[Abzug's] analysis is unique....Cosmos Crumbling is important reading to scholars of American cultural and political, as well as religious history.
...a detailed account of the many reform movements in Antebellum America.
Abzug's book has the double virtue of being informative and good to read...
A readable, insightful work. Abzug rightfully stresses the role of religion in American reform movements. First rate!
A brilliant reinterpretation of the dynamic reform movements that proliferated in the five decades following the American independence....Succeeds in breaking out of the constraining cocoon imposed by our own secular era and in comprehending nineteenth-century reformers in their own terms, within their own cosmos. Abzug goes far beyond any previous historian in getting to the core of American reform and thus to a vital part of American identity.
Offers the freshest, most elegantly phrased and profoundest reinterpretation of the American reform tradition in the last fifty years....All students of nineteenth-century American history will need to read this work.
[A]ll students of American culture in the nineteenth century...will now rely on Cosmos Crumbling as the most useful narrative overview of the role played by religious imagination in the unfolding of the ante-bellum reform.
...a useful resource for students of religion and politics...
...an original and provocative analysis of the religious roots of early nineteenth century reform movements....[Abzug's] analysis is unique....Cosmos Crumbling is important reading to scholars of American cultural and political, as well as religious history.
...a detailed account of the many reform movements in Antebellum America.
Abzug's book has the double virtue of being informative and good to read...
A readable, insightful work. Abzug rightfully stresses the role of religion in American reform movements. First rate!
A brilliant reinterpretation of the dynamic reform movements that proliferated in the five decades following the American independence....Succeeds in breaking out of the constraining cocoon imposed by our own secular era and in comprehending nineteenth-century reformers in their own terms, within their own cosmos. Abzug goes far beyond any previous historian in getting to the core of American reform and thus to a vital part of American identity.
Offers the freshest, most elegantly phrased and profoundest reinterpretation of the American reform tradition in the last fifty years....All students of nineteenth-century American history will need to read this work.