Illusions of innocence protestant primitivism in America, 1630 - 1875
Implicit in the rhetoric of American millennialism is the fundamental theme of recovery or restoration. Hughes and Allen show how the restoration perspective has worked in two important ways in American life: enshrining "first times" as a kind of transcendent norm that stands in judgment o...
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Chicago u.a.
University of Chicago Press
1988
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Implicit in the rhetoric of American millennialism is the fundamental theme of recovery or restoration. Hughes and Allen show how the restoration perspective has worked in two important ways in American life: enshrining "first times" as a kind of transcendent norm that stands in judgment on the ambiguities of the present; and fully identifying a de . |
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| Beschreibung: | Bibliography: p. 233-287 |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 296 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226359174 0-226-35917-4 |