Awash in a sea of faith :Christianizing the American people /Jon Butler.
Description
European religious heritage -- Crisis of Christian practice in America -- Magic and the occult -- Renewal of Christian authority -- Slavery and the African spiritual holocaust -- Plural origins of American revivalism -- Revolutionary millennium? -- Toward the antebellum spiritual hothouse -- Christian power in the American republic.
xii, 360 p. :ill. ;24 cm.