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Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture
by Joseph A. Conforti
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (1995-11-20)
ISBN: 0807845353
EAN: 9780807845356
Dewy Decimal #: 285.8092
Paperback: 288 pages
Release Date: 1995-11-08
SKU: 08080286
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Trade Paperback. Very Good condition with no markings except owners name on flyleaf. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. Slight diagonal crease in back cover. Minor wear to cover. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very Nice copy.
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Product Description
As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were generally dismissed as remnants of a moribund Puritan tradition. Focusing on the publishing history and appropriation of Edwards's works by succeeding generations, Joseph Conforti explores the construction and manipulation of the Edwards legacy and demonstrates its central place in American cultural and religious history. Most of Edwards's writings were not regularly republished or widely read until the early nineteenth century, when he emerged as a prominent thinker both in academic circles and in the new popular religious culture of the Second Great Awakening. Even after the Civil War, Edwards remained a popular figure from the Puritan past for colonial revivalists. But by the early twentieth century, scholars had again reinvented Edwards, this time deemphasizing his influence. These contrasting constructions of the one man, Conforti says, reveal the dynamic process of cultural change.
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