And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845

by Dickson D. Bruce Jr.

Book Overview

Winner of the James Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society.
For many years, the camp-meeting religion that flourished along the American frontier in the nineteenth century was seen from rather narrow perspectives. To many scholars, the camp-meetings were mainly a social outlet on which was imposed a thin veneer of religion. Others, viewing the annual gatherings as dawn-to-dusk shouting, emphasized emotionalism to the exclusion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870493108
• ISBN13: 9780870493102
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

And They All Sang Hallelujah!

I read this for a book group and thought it would be a dull academic book. Instead, its insights and well written history of a period of American religious history were accessible, easy to read. Although the premises are thought provoking, they are not hard to access.And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Campmeeting Religion 1800-1845