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This book is concerned with religious revivalism in the United States since 1825. It attempts to explain the part which revivalism has played, and is playing today, in the social, intellectual, and religious life of America. The aim has been, in describing the development of modern revivalism and the men who devoted their lives to it, to look below the surface phenomenon in an effort to discover why revivals have constantly recurred, what thei...

McLoughlin draws on psychohistory, sociology, and anthropology to examine the relationship between America's five great religious awakening and their influence on five great movements religious awakenings and their influence on five great movements for social reform in the United States.

Joseph, the teller of this extraordinary story, is born into modest circumstances and spends his life as a working man, mainly as a welder. But this is not all there is to Joseph, for Joseph, from his earliest years serving as a soldier in what was then Palestine, has seen and heard things that have been vouchsafed to very few. He has heard and felt the beating of great wings, he has seen the blazing light at the end of the rainbow, and he ...

Presents the study of South Asians in Britain and beyond. Interrogating the concept of diaspora by probing the ways in which the South Asian diaspora could be re-conceptualised, this title provides an analysis which is grounded in a sense of rooted and connected locations that do not necessarily privilege the homeland.

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Champions of the Cherokees is the story of two extraordinary Northern Baptist missionaries, father and son, who lived with the Cherokee Indians from 1821 to 1876. Told largely in the words of these outspoken and compassionate men, this is also a narrative of the Cherokees' sufferings at the hands of the United States government and white frontier dwellers. In addition, it is an analysis of the complexity of interracial relations in the United ...

This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members were forcibly removed from the southern Appalachians and resettled in what is now Oklahoma. In this master work, completed just before his death, the author not only explains how the Cherokees rebuilt their lives and society, but also recounts their fight to govern themselves as a separate nation with...

In "The Cherokees and Christianity, " William G. McLoughlin examines how the process of religious acculturation worked within the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century. More concerned with Cherokee "Christianization" than Cherokee "civilization, " these eleven essays cover the various stages of cultural confrontation with Christian imperialism.The first section of the book explores the reactions of the Cherokee to the inevitable clash ...

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High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings. As the colony grew in the seventeenth century, the belief in religious liberty and freedom of conscience espoused by its founder, Roger Williams, led to the development of political liberty a...