The Necessary Result of Piety: Slavery and Religious Establishments in South Carolina Presbyterianism, 1800-1840
Historians have argued that disestablishment liberated American religion and allowed for the proliferation of religious practice and religious freedom, especially individualistic Evangelicalism in the South. This proposition reduced nearly all of southern Protestantism to Revivalist Evangelicalism,...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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MDPI
[2017]
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Religions
Jahr: 2017, Band: 8, Heft: 9, Seiten: 1-15 |
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Slavery
B Presbyterian B Church B Authority B Establishment B South Carolina |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Historians have argued that disestablishment liberated American religion and allowed for the proliferation of religious practice and religious freedom, especially individualistic Evangelicalism in the South. This proposition reduced nearly all of southern Protestantism to Revivalist Evangelicalism, and failed to account for the powerful presence of coercive Protestant religiosity in older southern states such as South Carolina. While they shared certain Evangelical particulars with frontier populations, Protestants in South Carolina, especially Presbyterians, rejected individualized religion in favor of religiosity that favored and nurtured activist state protection of both antidemocratic political norms and chattel slavery. This essay argues that ostensibly disestablished Presbyterianism in South Carolina helped intellectually erect and socially perpetuate coercive religious and state power. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel8090180 |