Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World

by Timothy D. Hall

Book Overview

The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans. These revivals gave rise to the practice of itinerancy in which ministers and laypeople left their own communities to preach across the countryside. In Contested Boundaries, Timothy D. Hall argues that the Awakening was largely defined by the ensuing debate over itinerancy. Drawing on recent scholarship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082231522X
• ISBN13: 9780822315223
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"