Strange Jeremiahs: civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. Du Bois
The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution&...