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Ambivalent churchmen and evangelical churchwomen: the religion of the Episcopal elite..

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Richard Rankin probes the religious, intellectual, and social lives of North Carolina's antebellum elite to expose the dramatic effect of religious revival in the first half of the nineteenth century. Rankin uses family letters and church records to document an embrace of evangelism's emotionalism by the female upper class, a swift objection to evangelism's egalitarian tenets by the male upper class, and the domestic tension that ensued. Rankin evaluates the revival of the Episcopal church as a male strategy to replace evangelism with a more conservative approach to religion, and he speculates that it was North Carolina's escalating quarrel with northern states over slavery that effectively convinced women to abandon their religious enthusiasm.

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283.756 RAN a

Z. HANDIMAN

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283.756 RAN a

Publisher

: University of South Carolina., 1993

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xv,203p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-87249-887-5

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283.756

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EPISCOPAL CHURCH - HISTORY, NORTH CAROLINA

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