A divinity for all persuasions : popular print and early American religious life
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A divinity for all persuasions : popular print and early American religious life
（Religion in America series）
Oxford University Press, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the religious signifiance of early America's most ubiquitous popular genre. Other than a Bible and perhaps a few schoolbooks and sermons, almanacs were the only printed items most Americans owned before 1820. Purchased annually, the almanac was a calendar and astrologically-based medical handbook surrounded by poetry, essays, anecdotes, and a variety 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 collection 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 everyday print supports an innovative
interpretation of early American cultural and religious 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" rather than denominational specifics to define and organize their religious
lives.
目次
- Introduction
- Part I: An Annual Friend
- Chapter One: Almanacs
- Chapter Two: Astrology
- Part II: The Liturgy of Popular Culture
- Chapter Three: Death
- Chapter Four: Authority
- Chapter Five: Religion
- Part III: Non-Protestants
- Chapter Six: Catholics
- Chapter Seven: Others
- Conclusion
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