Description |
1 online resource (xii, 389 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction: Religion, emotion, and the double self -- The businessmen's revival -- The anxiety of Boston at mid-century -- Overexcitement, economic collapse, and the regulation of business -- Emotion, collective performance and value -- Emotional religion and the ministerial "balance-wheel" -- Men-women, and emotion -- Domestic contracts -- Clerks, apprentices, and boyculture -- Prayerful transactions -- Emotion, character, and ethnicity -- Epilogue: The meaning of the revival and its legacy -- Appendix 1. History, religion, and emotion: a historiographical survey -- Appendix 2. Emotion as heart, blood, and body -- Appendix 3. Emotion and the common sense philosophy |
Summary |
The 'Businessmen's Revival' was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significance |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-369) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Revivals -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
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Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century
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Protestants -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
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Businessmen -- Religious life -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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RELIGION / Christianity / General
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Businessmen -- Religious life
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Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
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Protestants
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Revivals
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Opwekkingsbewegingen.
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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Massachusetts.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780520924321 |
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0520924320 |
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1417523581 |
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9781417523580 |
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9780520221963 |
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0520221966 |
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