A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life (Religion in America)

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A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the religious signifiance of early The united states’s most ubiquitous popular genre. Other than a Bible and possibly a couple of schoolbooks and sermons, almanacs were the only printed items most Americans owned before 1820. Purchased yearly, the almanac used to be a calendar and astrologically-based medical handbook surrounded by poetry, essays, anecdotes, and plenty of practical information.

Employing a wealth of archival material, T.J. Tomlin analyzes the pan-Protestant sensibility distributed through the almanac’s pages between 1730 and 1820. By disseminating a selection of Protestant concepts regarding God’s existence, divine revelation, the human condition, and the afterlife, almanacs played an unparalleled role in early American religious life. Influenced by readers’ opinions and printers’ pragmatism, the religious content of on a regular basis print supports an innovative interpretation of early American cultural and spiritual history. In sharp contrast to a historiography centered on intra-Protestant competition, Tomlin shows that most early Americans relied on a handful of Protestant “essentials” somewhat than denominational specifics to define and organize their religious lives.

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