Piety in Providence
Subtitle: class dimensions of religious experience in antebellum Rhode Island
By: Mark S. Schantz.
Publisher: Brand: Cornell University Press; NCROL
Published: Jul 13, 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Religion and social status -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- History -- 19th century.; Providence (R.I.) -- Church history -- 19th century.
Description: "Covering topics from pew auctioning to the rise of self-anointed street preachers, Schantz provides a rich sense of the daily texture of religious life. In the early national period churches were, he explains, inclusive but also firmly controlled by affluent, white men. The revival of 1820 led the poorer citizens of Providence to adopt their own religious traditions and establish their own congregations.

In contrast to bourgeois churchgoers, who were wedded to decorum and rationality, the plebeians welcomed emotional outbursts and evinced an abiding belief in the supernatural. Schantz charts the ways in which these contrasting religious subcultures collided in the political turmoil of the Dorr Rebellion of 1842."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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