The Canada fire : radical Evangelicalism in British North America, 1775-1812 / [print]
G.A. Rawlyk.
- Kingston ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, [(c)1994.
- xix, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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.