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Burned over District
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Christian perfection
Community
Consumption
Cultural identity
Dialectics
Dietary reform
Domesticity
Dress reform
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Gerrit Smith
Heritage
Historical archaeology
Household
Lived religion
Museum
Reform
Religion
Second Great Awakening
Simplicity
Smithfield
Social relations
Struggle
Temperance
Texts
Underground Railroad
Product details
- ISBN 9780813061085
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2015
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the early nineteenth century, antebellum America witnessed a Second Great Awakening led by evangelical Protestants who gathered in revivals and contributed to the blossoming of social movements throughout the country. Preachers and reformers promoted a Christian lifestyle, and evangelical fervor overtook entire communities. One such community in Smithfield, New York, led by activist Gerrit Smith, is the focus of Hadley Kruczek-Aaron’s study.
In this incisive volume, Kruczek-Aaron demonstrates that religious ideology - specifically a lifestyle of temperance and simplicity as advocated by evangelical Christians - was as important an influence on consumption and daily life as socioeconomic status, purchasing power, access to markets, and other social factors.
Investigating the wealthy Smith family’s material worlds - meals, attire, and domestic wares - Kruczek-Aaron reveals how they engaged their beliefs to maintain a true Christian home. While Smith spread his practice of lived religion to the surrounding neighborhood, incongruities between his faith and his practice of that faith surface in the study, demonstrating the trials he and all convertsfaced while striving to lead a virtuous life.
Everyday Religion reveals how class, gender, ethnicity, and race influenced the actions of individuals attempting to walk in God’s light and the dynamics that continue to shape how this history is presented and commemorated today.
In this incisive volume, Kruczek-Aaron demonstrates that religious ideology - specifically a lifestyle of temperance and simplicity as advocated by evangelical Christians - was as important an influence on consumption and daily life as socioeconomic status, purchasing power, access to markets, and other social factors.
Investigating the wealthy Smith family’s material worlds - meals, attire, and domestic wares - Kruczek-Aaron reveals how they engaged their beliefs to maintain a true Christian home. While Smith spread his practice of lived religion to the surrounding neighborhood, incongruities between his faith and his practice of that faith surface in the study, demonstrating the trials he and all convertsfaced while striving to lead a virtuous life.
Everyday Religion reveals how class, gender, ethnicity, and race influenced the actions of individuals attempting to walk in God’s light and the dynamics that continue to shape how this history is presented and commemorated today.
Hadley Kruczek-Aaron is associate professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Potsdam, USA.
