Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Reli

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"Vitally fresh . . . an impressive book. The sophistication of the theoretical and historiographical introduction promises the reader that historical inquiry and interpretation of the first order await. It is a thrilling study."—Samuel S. Hill, University of Florida

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The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans. These revivals gave rise to the practice of itinerancy in which ministers and laypeople left their own communities to preach across the countryside. In Contested Boundaries, Timothy D. Hall argues that the Awakening was largely defined by the ensuing debate over itinerancy. Drawing on recent scholarship in cultural and social anthropology, cultural studies, and eighteenth-century religion, he reveals at the center of this debate the itinerant preacher as a catalyst for dramatic change in the religious practice and social order of the New World.This book expands our understanding of evangelical itinerancy in the 1740s by viewing it within the context of Britain's expanding commercial empire. As pro- and anti-revivalists tried to shape a burgeoning transatlantic consumer society, the itinerancy of the Great Awakening appears here as a forceful challenge to contemporary assumptions about the place of individuals within their social world and the role of educated leaders as regulators of communication, order, and change. The most celebrated of these itinerants was George Whitefield, an English minister who made unprecedented tours through the colonies. According to Hall, the activities of the itinerants, including Whitefield, encouraged in the colonists an openness beyond local boundaries to an expanding array of choices for belief and behavior in an increasingly mobile and pluralistic society. In the process, it forged a new model of the church and its social world.As a response to and a source of dynamic social change, itinerancy in Hall's powerful account provides a prism for viewing anew the worldly and otherworldly transformations of colonial society. Contested Boundaries will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial American history, religious studies, and cultural and social anthropology.

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"Contested Boundariesmakes a telling and timely argument. It opens up rich new insights into eighteenth-century Protestantism and the changing colonial mindset in the face of escalating populations, increased multiculturalism, improved modes of travel, rising rates of literacy, strengthened transatlantic commerce, and the arduous, extended transition from subsistence to markets."-Peter H. Wood, Duke University

Author Biography

Timothy D. Hall is Assistant Professor of Early American History at Central Michigan University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Itinerancy in Historical Perspective 172. The Menace of Itinerancy 413. Itinerancy and the Evangelical Imagination 714. The Proliferation of Itinerancy 101Conclusion: Itinerancy and the Transformation of the Early American Religious World 129Notes 141Index 177

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"Contested Boundaries makes a telling and timely argument. It opens up rich new insights into eighteenth-century Protestantism and the changing colonial mindset in the face of escalating populations, increased multiculturalism, improved modes of travel, rising rates of literacy, strengthened transatlantic commerce, and the arduous, extended transition from subsistence to markets."—Peter H. Wood, Duke University"Vitally fresh . . . an impressive book. The sophistication of the theoretical and historiographical introduction promises the reader that historical inquiry and interpretation of the first order await. It is a thrilling study."—Samuel S. Hill, University of Florida

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"Vitally fresh . . . an impressive book. The sophistication of the theoretical and historiographical introduction promises the reader that historical inquiry and interpretation of the first order await. It is a thrilling study."-Samuel S. Hill, University of Florida

Details ISBN082231522X Author Timothy D. Hall Pages 208 Language English ISBN-10 082231522X ISBN-13 9780822315223 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1994 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations Publisher Duke University Press Birth 1955 Affiliation Central Michigan University Short Title CONTESTED BOUNDARIES - P DOI 10.1604/9780822315223 UK Release Date 1994-12-20 AU Release Date 1994-12-20 NZ Release Date 1994-12-20 US Release Date 1994-12-20 Publication Date 1994-12-20 DEWEY 277 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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