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Religious and secular reform in America : ideas, beliefs, and social change / edited by David K. Adams and Cornelis A. van Minnen.

Contributor(s): Adams, David Keith | Minnen, Cornelis A. van
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press, 1999Description: xiv, 273 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 081470686X (pbk.); 9780814706862 (pbk.); 0814706851 (cloth); 9780814706855 (cloth)Subject(s): United States -- Church history -- Congresses | Church and social problems -- United States -- History -- CongressesDDC classification: 277.3 LOC classification: BR526 | .R48 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Reform, authority and conflict in the churches of the middle colonies, 1700-1770 / Mark Häberlein -- Perfect law of liberty : radical religion and the democratization of New England, 1780-1840 / Louis Billington -- Unitarian voluntary societies and the revision of elite authority in Boston, 1780-1820 / Anthony Mann -- Orestes Brownson and the relationship between reform and democracy / Naomi Wulf -- Sectarian perfectionism and universal reform : the radical social and political thought of William Lloyd Garrison / Louis J. Kern -- Rational recreation : reforming leisure in antebellum America / Robert Lewis -- Sabbatarianism : the intersection of church and state in the orchestration of everyday life in nineteenth-century America / Alexis McCrossen -- Woman's Christian Temperance Union reform movement in the south in the late nineteenth century / Valeria Gennaro Lerda -- War in the social order : the Great War and the liberalization of American Quakerism / Howell John Harris -- Progressivism, poststructuralism and the writing of American history / Melvyn Stokes -- Cultural foundations of democracy : the struggle between a religious and a secular intellectual reform movement in the American age of conformity / Jan C.C. Rupp -- Evangelicalism, social reform and the US welfare state, 1970-1996 / Axel R. Schaefer.

Papers delivered at the Third Middelburg Conference of European Historians, held at the Roosevelt Study Center in the Netherlands, Apr. 23-25, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.

Reform, authority and conflict in the churches of the middle colonies, 1700-1770 / Mark Häberlein -- Perfect law of liberty : radical religion and the democratization of New England, 1780-1840 / Louis Billington -- Unitarian voluntary societies and the revision of elite authority in Boston, 1780-1820 / Anthony Mann -- Orestes Brownson and the relationship between reform and democracy / Naomi Wulf -- Sectarian perfectionism and universal reform : the radical social and political thought of William Lloyd Garrison / Louis J. Kern -- Rational recreation : reforming leisure in antebellum America / Robert Lewis -- Sabbatarianism : the intersection of church and state in the orchestration of everyday life in nineteenth-century America / Alexis McCrossen -- Woman's Christian Temperance Union reform movement in the south in the late nineteenth century / Valeria Gennaro Lerda -- War in the social order : the Great War and the liberalization of American Quakerism / Howell John Harris -- Progressivism, poststructuralism and the writing of American history / Melvyn Stokes -- Cultural foundations of democracy : the struggle between a religious and a secular intellectual reform movement in the American age of conformity / Jan C.C. Rupp -- Evangelicalism, social reform and the US welfare state, 1970-1996 / Axel R. Schaefer.

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