Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace (eBook)

Ángel Cortés (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
178 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-51877-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book reveals the origins of the American religious marketplace by examining the life and work of reformer and journalist Orestes Brownson (1803-1876). Grounded in a wide variety of sources, including personal correspondence, journalistic essays, book reviews, and speeches, this work argues that religious sectarianism profoundly shaped participants in the religious marketplace. Brownson is emblematic of this dynamic because he changed his religious identity seven times over a quarter of a century. Throughout, Brownson waged a war of words opposing religious sectarianism. By the 1840s, however, a corrosive intellectual environment transformed Brownson into an arch religious sectarian. The book ends with a consideration of several explanations for Brownson’s religious mobility, emphasizing the goad of sectarianism as the most salient catalyst for change. 

Autor

Ángel Cortés is an Associate Professor of History at Holy Cross College, USA. Cortés holds degrees in Psychology, Religious Studies, and History.

Inhalt

PrologueChapter One: An Age of ‘Crisis and Discontinuity’: Brownson’s Early Religious Confusion & MobilityChapter Two: ‘A Sea of Sectarian Rivalries’: The Second Great Awakening & Religious Conflict Chapter Three: ‘I Am Slave to No Sect’: Defense of Intellectual Freedom & Doubt Chapter Four: ‘I Wished to Unite Men’: A Vision of Religious Calm in the Midst of an Intellectual StormChapter Five: ‘We Must Have Clothing and a Shelter’: Search for a Religious HomeChapter Six: ‘We Are Ourselves Too Polemical’:Formation of a Rhetorical Pugilist Chapter Seven: ‘A Dangerous and Pestilent Fellow’: Return to Religious LiberalismChapter Eight: ‘An Uncompromising Catholic and a Thoroughgoing Papist’: End of a Long Journey Epilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
• Zusatzinfo: X, 178 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Catholicism • Charles Taylor • Nineteenth century • Protestantism • Religious division • Religious melancholia • Religious mobility • Unitarianism • USA
• ISBN-10: 3-319-51877-1 / 3319518771
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-51877-0 / 9783319518770