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• catalog abstract ""Schweiger provides 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. Tracing the lives and careers of 800 clergy both before and after the Civil War, she shows that pastors and their congregations built religious institutions that educated, ordered, and evangelized the nineteenth-century South. By the end of the century, Schweiger demonstrates, pastors had transformed themselves from self-educated stump-speaking revivalists into professionals who valued seminary degrees and polished pulpits. Their love-affair with education redefined the meaning of revivals, shifting the focus of religious experience from the camp meeting to the classroom. Schweiger describes the pastors' efforts to rope in new members, fatten denominational coffers, organize scores of committees, and raise elegant brick churches and colleges. She looks at the role of the clergy in the Civil War, examining their response to the loss of the war as well as their subsequent efforts to create social consensus in the postwar South. Finally, she considers the postwar loss of clerical authority and the corresponding gains in lay voluntarism, and in the growth of women's influence in the churches."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11730918.
• catalog coverage "Virginia Church history 19th century.".
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""Schweiger provides 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. Tracing the lives and careers of 800 clergy both before and after the Civil War, she shows that pastors and their congregations built religious institutions that educated, ordered, and evangelized the nineteenth-century South. By the end of the century, Schweiger demonstrates, pastors had transformed themselves from self-educated stump-speaking revivalists into professionals who valued seminary degrees and polished pulpits.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-256) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Religion in the nineteenth-century South -- Country preachers -- City pastors -- Reading, writing, and religion -- Sectionalism and the rise of denominations -- Pastors and soldiers -- Reconstructing religion -- the ministerial profession -- A call to order -- The divided mind of new South pastors -- epilogue: Religion and progress in the nineteenth-century SOuth -- Appendix: A note on sources and methods.".
• catalog description "Their love-affair with education redefined the meaning of revivals, shifting the focus of religious experience from the camp meeting to the classroom. Schweiger describes the pastors' efforts to rope in new members, fatten denominational coffers, organize scores of committees, and raise elegant brick churches and colleges. She looks at the role of the clergy in the Civil War, examining their response to the loss of the war as well as their subsequent efforts to create social consensus in the postwar South. Finally, she considers the postwar loss of clerical authority and the corresponding gains in lay voluntarism, and in the growth of women's influence in the churches."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xii, 267 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0195111958".
• catalog isPartOf "Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)".
• catalog isPartOf "Religion in America series".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Virginia Church history 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "Virginia".
• catalog subject "277.55/081 21".
• catalog subject "BR555.V8 S38 2000".
• catalog subject "Baptists Virginia Clergy History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Methodist Church Virginia Clergy History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Religion in the nineteenth-century South -- Country preachers -- City pastors -- Reading, writing, and religion -- Sectionalism and the rise of denominations -- Pastors and soldiers -- Reconstructing religion -- the ministerial profession -- A call to order -- The divided mind of new South pastors -- epilogue: Religion and progress in the nineteenth-century SOuth -- Appendix: A note on sources and methods.".
• catalog title "The gospel working up : progress and the pulpit in nineteenth century Virginia / Beth Barton Schweiger.".
• catalog type "Church history. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".