A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life by Tomlin, T. J.
A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life by Tomlin, T. J.

A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life

A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the religious signifiance of early America's most ubiquitous popular genre. Other...
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Author: T. J. Tomlin
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A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life by Tomlin, T. J.

A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life

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A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life by Tomlin, T. J.

A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life

BD$99.74
Author: T. J. Tomlin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the religious signifiance of early America's most ubiquitous popular genre. Other than a Bible and perhaps a few schoolbooks and sermons, almanacs were the only printed items most Americans owned before 1820. Purchased annually, the almanac was a calendar and astrologically-based medical handbook surrounded by poetry, essays, anecdotes, and a variety of practical information.

Employing a wealth of archival material, T.J. Tomlin analyzes the pan-Protestant sensibility distributed through the almanac's pages between 1730 and 1820. By disseminating a collection of Protestant concepts regarding God's existence, divine revelation, the human condition, and the afterlife, almanacs played an unparalleled role in early American religious life. Influenced by readers' opinions and printers' pragmatism, the religious content of everyday print supports an innovative interpretation of early American cultural and religious history. In sharp contrast to a historiography centered on intra-Protestant competition, Tomlin shows that most early Americans relied on a handful of Protestant "essentials" rather than denominational specifics to define and organize their religious lives.

Author: T. J. Tomlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/01/2017
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780190669584

About the Author
T.J. Tomlin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado.


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