Earnestly Contending: Religious Freedom and Pluralism in Antebellum America

by Dickson D. Bruce Jr. and Dickson D. Bruce

In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture. Despite their enormous normative power, these still-evolving ideals--themselves partly religious in origin--ran up against deeply entrenched concerns about the integrity of religious faith and commitment and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813933633
• ISBN13: 9780813933634
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"