RT Book
T1 Illusions of innocence: protestant primitivism in America, 1630 - 1875
A1 Hughes, Richard T. 1943-
A2 Allen, Leonard 1952-
LA English
PP Chicago u.a.
PB University of Chicago Press
YR 1988
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/018782280
AB Implicit in the rhetoric of American millennialism is the fundamental theme of recovery or restoration. Hughes and Allen show how the restoration perspective has worked in two important ways in American life: enshrining "first times" as a kind of transcendent norm that stands in judgment on the ambiguities of the present; and fully identifying a de .
NO Bibliography: p. 233-287
CN BR517
SN 0226359174
K1 Primitivism : History
K1 Protestant churches : United States : History
K1 Primitivism : Religious aspects : Christianity : History
K1 United States : Church history