Amanda Berry Smith
Amanda Berry Smith

Author: Adrienne Israel

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1461656249

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Now available in paperback! This biography is the compelling story of Amanda Berry Smith, a former slave and washer-woman with less than a year of formal education who rose to become one of the nineteenth century's most important and successful Christian evangelists. Based on letters published in Christian newspapers, copies of her own newspaper The Helper, and numerous public records and documents, this biography puts Amanda Berry Smith's eventful life in a proper historical perspective, evaluating the significant impact of her deeds. It traces her beginnings as the child of freed blacks in antebellum Pennsylvania, her turbulent marriages, her search for communities and faith in New York City, and her eventual prominence as a camp-fire missionary and as a world traveler of spiritual faith. This thoughtful individual study probes the complex relationship between herself and other contemporary reformers, black and white, and answers many questions left unanswered by Smith's own autobiography.

Hard at Play
Hard at Play

Author: Kathryn Grover

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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A collection of original essays that examine the role of leisure in American culture from the antebellum period to WWI. Encompassing a variety of disciplinary approaches, the pieces cover a wide range of topics, from roller skating and riflery to photography and free play. Includes 160 illustratio

The Wesleyan Holiness Movement
The Wesleyan Holiness Movement

Author: Charles Edwin Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 888

ISBN-13:

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A comprehensive introduction to interdenominational, independent, and denominational associations, churches, schools and workers associated with the National Holiness Association, the Inter-Church Holiness Convention, the Keswick Convention, and the Holiness-Pentecostal movement, with related bibliographies including more than 5,000 items.

Religion and the American Experience, 1620-1900
Religion and the American Experience, 1620-1900

Author: Annette Blum

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1992-11-24

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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This bibliography is a comprehensive record of doctoral dissertations on religion and American society. Included are 4,240 citations for dissertations written through June 1991. Each work discusses the historical dimension of America's religious experience between 1620 and 1900, and the bibliography provides order numbers for all dissertations available from University Microfilms, Inc. In addition to biographical and denominational studies, the volume contains citations on communal societies, fraternal orders, literature, pragmatism, science, slavery, and temperance. Also included are titles pertaining to church-affiliated institutions of higher education. A preface overviews the scope of the work, criteria for inclusion, and research methodology. A section of bibliographic entries for denominations and movements follows. Entries in this section are grouped in clusters for particular movements and denominations, and the clusters are arranged alphabetically for ease of use. The next section contains bibliographic entries arranged in topical clusters, with topics presented in alphabetical order. The volume concludes with detailed author and subject indexes.