Gospel Working Up : Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia.
The Gospel Working Up offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Schweiger examines the religious experience both before and after the Civil War, showin...
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2000
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; 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.
