Author: John BayleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Confessions of a Converted Infidel; with lights and shades of itinerant life, and miscellaneous sketches ... Third edition
Author: John BayleyConfessions of a Converted Infidel
Author: John BayleyConfessions of a Converted Infidel
Author: John BayleyConfessions of a Converted Infidel
Author: John BayleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780461767469
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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Confessions of a Converted Infidel
Author: John BayleyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266443711
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Excerpt from Confessions of a Converted Infidel: With Lights and Shades of Itinerant Life, and Miscellaneous Sketches The days of my childhood and youth were Spent in the ancient borough of newcastle-under lyme, in the county of Stafford, Old England. My mother was a pious member of the Church of England, and I was baptized by the Rev. Clement Leigh, the rec tor, when I was only six days old. One of the heaviest calamities that can befall a child came upon me in my fourth year. My mother sank into a pre mature grave, and left five children to the bufi'etings of a world of wickedness and woe. My father was an infidel, an admirer of Paine, Volney, Voltaire, and others of their class; and soon after my mother's death he became (oh, how I grieve when I write it) an intemperate man. Some of my earliest recollec tions with regard to this point are of the most pain ful character, and the scenes and incidents of my early days were such as even now to throw back their long shadows of gloom upon my spirit when. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Confessions of a Converted Infidel
Author: Warton Professor of English Literature John BayleyPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357470357
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Confessions of a Converted Infidel
Author: John BayleySouthern Literary Messenger
Author: Skepticism and American Faith
Author: Christopher GrassoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190494387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It produced different visions of knowledge and education in an "enlightened" society. It fueled social reform in an era of economic transformation, territorial expansion, and social change. Ultimately, as Christopher Grasso argues in this definitive work, it molded the making and eventual unmaking of American nationalism. Religious skepticism has been rendered nearly invisible in American religious history, which often stresses the evangelicalism of the era or the "secularization" said to be happening behind people's backs, or assumes that skepticism was for intellectuals and ordinary people who stayed away from church were merely indifferent. Certainly the efforts of vocal "infidels" or "freethinkers" were dwarfed by the legions conducting religious revivals, creating missions and moral reform societies, distributing Bibles and Christian tracts, and building churches across the land. Even if few Americans publicly challenged Christian truth claims, many more quietly doubted, and religious skepticism touched--and in some cases transformed--many individual lives. Commentators considered religious doubt to be a persistent problem, because they believed that skeptical challenges to the grounds of faith--the Bible, the church, and personal experience--threatened the foundations of American society. Skepticism and American Faith examines the ways that Americans--ministers, merchants, and mystics; physicians, schoolteachers, and feminists; self-help writers, slaveholders, shoemakers, and soldiers--wrestled with faith and doubt as they lived their daily lives and tried to make sense of their world.
Ministers and Masters
Author: Charity R. CarneyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
In Ministers and Masters Charity R. Carney presents a thorough account of the way in which Methodist preachers constructed their own concept of masculinity within -- and at times in defiance of -- the constraints of southern honor culture of the early nineteenth century. By focusing on this unique subgroup of southern men, the book explores often-debated concepts like southern honor and patriarchy in a new way. Carney analyzes Methodist preachers both involved with and separate from mainstream southern society, and notes whether they served as itinerants -- venturing into rural towns -- or remained in city churches to witness to an urban population. Either way, they looked, spoke, and acted like outsiders, refusing to drink, swear, dance, duel, or even dress like other white southern men. Creating a separate space in which to minister to southern men, women, and children, oftentimes converting a dancehall floor into a pulpit, they raised the ire of non- Methodists around them. Carney shows how understanding these distinct and often defiant stances provides an invaluable window into antebellum society and also the variety of masculinity standards within that culture. In Ministers and Masters, Carney uses ministers' stories to elucidate notions of secular sinfulness and heroic Methodist leadership, explores contradictory ideas of spiritual equality and racial hierarchy, and builds a complex narrative that shows how numerous ministers both rejected and adopted concepts of southern mastery. Torn between convention and conviction, Methodist preachers created one of the many "Souths" that existed in the nineteenth century and added another dimension to the well-documented culture of antebellum society.