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Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination.
by Robert H. Abzug
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0195037529
- ISBN 13
- 9780195037524
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New York, NY Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover First Edition [1994]; First Printing indicated. First Edition [1994]; First Printing indicated. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 285pp. 8vo. 304 pages. Hardback with DJ. Robert Abzug's fresh approach to antebellum reform illuminates some of its underlying causes. Abzug explores the antebellum religious imagination, positing that the reformers set about "sacralizing the world"--radically joining Heaven and Earth. In antebellum America, the language of religion, politics and science all reinforced each other. Abzug argues that Lyman Beecher confronted the crisis in New England identity by transferring its spiritual identity as a spiritual Israel to all of America. This sense of mission then drove the evangelical program of reform. Likewise, William Lloyd Garrison re-imagined the basis of American society by advocating a radical egalitarianism--blacks were entitled to all rights of citizenship. Abzug argues that all reforms sprung from the wellspring of religious imagination. Reformers were rethinking church and society. Inspired by their visions, they set out to remake America. Abzug is convincing. My one main criticism is that Abzug did not set American reform in its larger context. Many American reformers were indebted to their European counterparts. What of the European religious imagination? How was it different from the American? Nonetheless, this shortcoming is small given Abzug's deep insight into American reform. I highly recommend this work to students of antebellum reform or American religion.
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- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 44755
- Title
- Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination.
- Author
- Robert H. Abzug
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [1994]; First Printing indicated.
- ISBN 10
- 0195037529
- ISBN 13
- 9780195037524
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1994.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christian Ethics; Religion: Christianity; Church History; Christian Living;
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