Cane Ridge: America’s Pentecost (Curti Lecture Series)

Amazon.com Price: $16.95 (as of 06/05/2019 12:44 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

What happened at or near the Cane Ridge meeting house in central Kentucky in August 1801 has grow to be a legendary event in American religious history. Never before in The usa had such a lot of thousands of people gathered for what became a lot more than the planned Presbyterian communion service. Never had such a lot of families camped at the grounds. Never before had such a lot of people been affected with involuntary physical exercises—sobbing, shouting, shaking, and swooning. And never before in American had a non secular meeting led to such a lot national publicity, triggered such a lot controversy, or helped provoke such important denominational schisms.


    Paul Conkin tells the story of Cane Ridge in all its dimensions. The backdrop involves the convoluted history of Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism in The usa, the pluralistic religious environment in early Kentucky, and the gradual evolution of a new type of evangelical religious culture in eighteenth-century The usa.


    The aftermath was once complex. Cane Ridge helped popularize religious camps and influenced the subsequent development of planned camp meetings. It exposed deep and developing divisions of doctrine among Presbyterian clergy, and contributed to the birth of two new denominations —Christians (Disciples of Christ) and Cumberland Presbyterians and furthered the growth of a new revival culture, keyed to a crisis-like conversion experience, while it marked a gradual decline in sacramentalism.

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » State and Local » Cane Ridge: America’s Pentecost (Curti Lecture Series)

Recent Products