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020			_a9781611172751
020			_z9781611172744 (hardback)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aBR555.S6 _bL58 2013
082	0	0	_a277.57/07 _223
100	1		_aLittle, Thomas J. _q(Thomas James), _d1963-
245	1	4	_aThe origins of southern evangelicalism _h[electronic resource] : _breligious revivalism in the South Carolina lowcountry, 1670-1760 / _cThomas J. Little.
260			_aColumbia, South Carolina : _bUniversity of South Carolina Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"During the late seventeenth century, a heterogeneous mixture of Protestant settlers made their way to the South Carolina lowcountry from both the Old World and elsewhere in the New. Representing a hodgepodge of European religious traditions, they shaped the foundations of a new and distinct plantation society in the British-Atlantic world. The Lords Proprietors of Carolina made vigorous efforts to recruit Nonconformists to their overseas colony by granting settlers considerable freedom of religion and liberty of conscience. Codified in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, this toleration ultimately attracted a substantial number of settlers of many and varying Christian denominations. In The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism, Thomas J. Little refutes commonplace beliefs that South Carolina grew spiritually lethargic and indifferent to religion in the colonial era. Little argues that pluralism engendered religious renewal and revival, which developed further after Anglicans in the colony secured legal establishment for their church. The Carolina colony emerged at the fulcrum of an international Protestant awakening that embraced a more emotional, individualistic religious experience and helped to create a transatlantic evangelical movement in the mideighteenth century. Offering new perspectives on both early American history and the religious history of the colonial South, The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism charts the regional spread of early evangelicalism in the too often neglected South Carolina lowcountry--the economic and cultural center of the lower southern colonies. Although evangelical Christianity has long been and continues to be the dominant religion of the American South, historians have traditionally described it as a comparatively late-flowering development in British America. Reconstructing the history of religious revivalism in the lowcountry and placing the subject firmly within an Atlantic world context, Little demonstrates that evangelical Christianity had much earlier beginnings in prerevolutionary southern society than historians have traditionally recognized"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
651		0	_aSouth Carolina _xChurch history _y18th century.
651		0	_aSouth Carolina _xChurch history _y17th century.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION / History. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aEvangelicalism _zSouthern States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aEvangelicalism _zSouthern States _xHistory _y17th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781611172751/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c34369 _d34369