| Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Cortés, Ángel (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319847678 ISBN-13: 9783319847672 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - History | Social History - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 200.09 |
| Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.51 lbs) 178 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book reveals the origins of the American religious marketplace by examining the life and work of reformer and journalist Orestes Brownson (1803-1876). Grounded in a wide variety of sources, including personal correspondence, journalistic essays, book reviews, and speeches, this work argues that religious sectarianism profoundly shaped participants in the religious marketplace. Brownson is emblematic of this dynamic because he changed his religious identity seven times over a quarter of a century. Throughout, Brownson waged a war of words opposing religious sectarianism. By the 1840s, however, a corrosive intellectual environment transformed Brownson into an arch religious sectarian. The book ends with a consideration of several explanations for Brownson's religious mobility, emphasizing the goad of sectarianism as the most salient catalyst for change. |
