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A cautious enthusiasm : mystical piety and evangelicalism in colonial South Carolina
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"Examines the religious, social, and political interplay between eighteenth-century evangelicalism and the Anglican establishment in the lowcountry South"--Back cover.
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- Creator
- Samuel C. Smith
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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- xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781611171310, 1611171318
- OCLC
- ocn800035081
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.
- pt. 1. Transatlantic roots : origin and transmission -- "To establish once again the divine image" : mystical reflection, pietistic action, and the transatlantic roots of evangelicalism's rise -- "A second kind of trinity" : Anglicanism and mystical union -- pt. 2. Early evangelical contact : paranoia and hegemony -- "Many Romish and German corruptions" : John Wesley and George Whitefield in Georgia -- "We know Rome has her seed and harvest missionaries" : George Whitefield in South Carolina -- pt. 3. Mediating consensus : harmony, significance, and replication -- Whence the harmony? : evangelical transcendence, country ideology, and consensus in South Carolina -- "Many moral, good sort of men ... have been awakened" : provincial elites and the search for significance -- Charleston's "holy club" -- pt. 4. Negotiating an ethical maze : pietistic flexibility and the sanctification of slavery -- Reversing the curse : evangelicalism and the coming of slavery to Georgia -- "To proceed with caution" : the struggle for a safe and sanctified slavery in South Carolina -- pt. 5. Long-term implications : evangelical secularization and union -- Corpus reipublicae mysticum : pietistic secularization and political divorce -- "There is an enthusiasm in politics ... which religious notions inspire" : Henry Laurens, Christopher Gadsden, and the pietistic impulse for union