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The Canada fire : radical Evangelicalism in British North America, 1775-1812 / G.A. Rawlyk. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kingston ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)1994.Description: xix, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780773512214
  • 9780773512771
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR1642
  • BR1642.R261.C363 1994
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Contents:
William Black (1760-1834): Methodist new light? -- David George (1743-1810): Black Nova Scotian New Light Baptist -- Freeborn Garrettson (1752-1827): a Methodist New Light -- Harris Harding (1761-1854): An Allinite New Light indeed -- The evolving radical evangelical ethos of Canada: from Nova Scotia to Upper Canada and back. The Nova Scotian New Lights: form the bottom up, 1785-1793 -- The Canada fire: Mainethodist radical evangelicalism in Upper Canad, 1784-1812 -- "A total revolution in religious and civil government": the evolving radical evangelical ethos of British North America, 1775-1812 -- The evangelical rituals: camp meetings, believer's baptism, and the long communion. "A powerful means of awakening and converting souls": the Hay Bay camp meeting, September 1805 -- The rage for dipping: Joseph Crandall, Elijah Estabrooks, and believer's baptism, 1795-1800 -- New Lights, Presbyterians, James MacGregor, and Nova Scotia's first long communion, July 1788.
Subject: G.A. Rawlyk examines the remarkable growth and evolution of "radical evangelicalism" in British North America from the American Revolution to the War of 1812. He argues that radical evangelicalism was the leading edge of Protestantism and was more democratic and populist than contemporary evangelicalism in the United States. --from publisher description.
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The radical evangelical paradigm established: the maritime experience. Henry Alline (1748-1784): the shaping of the conversion paradigm -- William Black (1760-1834): Methodist new light? -- David George (1743-1810): Black Nova Scotian New Light Baptist -- Freeborn Garrettson (1752-1827): a Methodist New Light -- Harris Harding (1761-1854): An Allinite New Light indeed -- The evolving radical evangelical ethos of Canada: from Nova Scotia to Upper Canada and back. The Nova Scotian New Lights: form the bottom up, 1785-1793 -- The Canada fire: Mainethodist radical evangelicalism in Upper Canad, 1784-1812 -- "A total revolution in religious and civil government": the evolving radical evangelical ethos of British North America, 1775-1812 -- The evangelical rituals: camp meetings, believer's baptism, and the long communion. "A powerful means of awakening and converting souls": the Hay Bay camp meeting, September 1805 -- The rage for dipping: Joseph Crandall, Elijah Estabrooks, and believer's baptism, 1795-1800 -- New Lights, Presbyterians, James MacGregor, and Nova Scotia's first long communion, July 1788.

G.A. Rawlyk examines the remarkable growth and evolution of "radical evangelicalism" in British North America from the American Revolution to the War of 1812. He argues that radical evangelicalism was the leading edge of Protestantism and was more democratic and populist than contemporary evangelicalism in the United States. --from publisher description.

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