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| Title: | Perfectionist politics : abolitionism and the religious tensions of American democracy / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas M Strong |
| ISBN: | 0815627939; 9780815627937 |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-256) and index. |
| Description: | xiii, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | ch. 1. Middle course: the mediating role of evangelical perfectionism -- ch. 2. Spiritual democracy: the development of antislavery church reform -- ch. 3. Liberty Party theology: perfectionist undergirding for political activity -- ch. 4. Abolition Church: expanding the ecclesiastical abolitionist network -- ch. 5. Political millennium: the imminent inauguration of God's government -- ch. 6. Burned-out district: the fragmenting of ecclesiastical abolitionism. |
| Responsibility: | Douglas M. Strong. |
| Genre/Form: |
Church history. History. |
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Strong, Douglas M., 1956- Perfectionist politics. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607272005 Online version: Strong, Douglas M., 1956- Perfectionist politics. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607693555 |
| Year: | 1999. |
| Publisher: | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 98037928; National Library: 009248740 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: E449; Dewey No.: 973.7/114 |
| Series: | Religion and politics; Variation: Religion and politics. |
| OCLC No.: | 39606723 |
Abstract:
Perfectionist Politics is the story of an important but overlooked antebellum reform movement: ecclesiastical abolitionism. Douglas M. Strong examines radical evangelical Protestants who seceded from pro-slavery denominations and reorganized themselves into independent antislavery congregations. Mirroring political abolitionist activity - particularly in the "burned-over district" of New York State - the ecclesiastical abolitionists formed a network of abolition churches that became the primary focus of Liberty Party electioneering strategy. Ecclesiastical abolitionists justified this clear connection between church and state through their experience of evangelical perfectionism. A vote for the Liberty Party became a mark of one's holiness.
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