Author: Mark Saunders Schantz

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780801429521

In contrast to bourgeois churchgoers, who were wedded to decorum and rationality, the plebeians welcomed emotional outbursts and evinced an abiding belief in the supernatural. Schantz charts the ways in which these contrasting religious subcultures collided in the political turmoil of the Dorr Rebellion of 1842."--BOOK JACKET.