Islands of holiness : rural religion in upstate New York, 1790-1860 /
Johnson, Curtis D.,1949-
Ithaca, N.Y. : Fall Creek Books,
2012, c1989.
Reprint. Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.
Frontier churches, 1790-1815. Adapting to the New York frontier ; The Development of an island mentality -- Growing churches, 1812-1843. The triumph of Arminianism ; Women: agents of the gospel message ; Denomination, institutional circumstance, and rural revivalism ; The failure of economic explanations of rural revivalism -- Divided churches, 1826-1846. Discipline and the island mentality ; Competition distrupts the evangelical order ; Individualism and the embattled corporate church ; The ultratist revolt -- "Modern" churches, 1846-1860. Evangelical churches search for unity ; The decline fo the island mentality ; Cotland County churches as "modern" churches -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. Methodological notes ; Evangelicalism in Cortland County ; Church discipline ; Religious voluntarism.
Religious thought
Revivals