Cross, Whitney R.

The burned-over district : the social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western New York, 1800-1850 / Whitney R. Cross. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, (c)1982, (c)1950. - 1 online resource (xiii, 383 pages) : maps. - Cornell paperbacks .

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Burned-over District; Contents; List of Maps; BOOK I. ORIGINS: 1800-1825; Chapter 1. The Great Revival; Chapter 2. Yankee Benevolence; Chapter 3. Premonitions; BOOK II. ENVIRONMENT: 1825-1850; Chapter 4. Canal Days; Chapter 5. Social Patterns; BOOK III. PORTENTS: 1825-1831; Chapter 6. The Martyr; Chapter 7. Yorker Benevolence; Chapter 8. The Prophet; Chapter 9. The Evangelist; BOOK IV. GENESIS OF ULTRAISM: 1826-1837; Chapter 10. New Measures; Chapter 11. New Men; Chapter 12. New Ideas; BOOK V. HARVEST: 1830-1845; Chapter 13. A Moral Reformation; Chapter 14. Perfect Sanctification. Chapter 15. SchismChapter 16. The Pattern of Dispersing Ultraism; BOOK VI. AFTERMATH: 1840-1850; Chapter 17. The End of the World; Chapter 18. Utopia Now; Chapter 19. World without End; Chapter 20. The Passing Era; Appendix. Notes on Maps; Index.



9780801477010


Enthusiasm--Religious aspects--Christianity.


Electronic Books.

BR555 / .B876 1982