Title Contested boundaries : itinerancy and the reshaping of the Colonial American religious world / Timothy D. Hall

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (x, 196 pages) Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Itinerancy in Historical Perspective -- 2. The Menace of Itinerancy -- 3. Itinerancy and the Evangelical Imagination -- 4. The Proliferation of Itinerancy -- Conclusion: Itinerancy and the Transformation of the Early American Religious World -- Notes -- Index Summary The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans. These revivals gave rise to the practice of itinerancy in which ministers and laypeople left their own communities to preach across the countryside. In Contested Boundaries, Timothy D. Hall argues that the Awakening was largely defined by the ensuing debate over itinerancy. Drawing on recent scholarship in cultural and social anthropology, cultural studies, and eighteenth-century religion, he reveals at the center of this debate the itinerant preacher as a catalyst for dramatic change in the religious practice and social order of the New World. This book expands our understanding of evangelical itinerancy in the 1740s by viewing it within the context of Britain's expanding commercial empire. As pro- and anti-revivalists tried to shape a burgeoning transatlantic consumer society, the itinerancy of the Great Awakening appears here as a forceful challenge to contemporary assumptions about the place of individuals within their social world and the role of educated leaders as regulators of communication, order, and change. The most celebrated of these itinerants was George Whitefield, an English minister who made unprecedented tours through the colonies. According to Hall, the activities of the itinerants, including Whitefield, encouraged in the colonists an openness beyond local boundaries to an expanding array of choices for belief and behavior in an increasingly mobile and pluralistic society. In the process, it forged a new model of the church and its social world. As a response to and a source of dynamic social change, itinerancy in Hall's powerful account provides a prism for viewing anew the worldly and otherworldly transformations of colonial society. Contested Boundaries will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial American history, religious studies, and cultural and social anthropology Analysis Christianity History United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-175) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Great Awakening. Itinerancy (Church polity) -- History of doctrines -- 18th century Circuit riders -- United States -- History -- 18th century RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. Circuit riders Great Awakening Itinerancy (Church polity) -- History of doctrines Opwekkingsbewegingen. Rondtrekkenden. Predikanten. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822399643 0822399644

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