{"product_id":"the-democratization-of-american-christianity","title":"The Democratization of American Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eA provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic  \"The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism  and this book is the most important study of it ever published.\"James Turner  Journal of Interdisciplinary History  Winner of the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize  the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic book prize  and the Albert C. Outler Prize  In this provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic  Nathan O. Hatch argues that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth centurythe Christian movement  Methodism  the Baptist movement  the black churches  and the Mormonsshowing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated. \"The most powerful  informed  and complex suggestion yet made about the religious  political  and psychic opening of American life from Jefferson to Jackson. . . . Hatchs reconstruction of his five religious mass movements will add popular religious culture to denominationalism  church and state  and theology as primary dimensions of American religious history.\"Robert M. Calhoon  William and Mary Quarterly \"Hatchs revisionist work asks us to put the religion of the early republic in a radically new perspective. . . . He has written one of the finest books on American religious history to appear in many years.\"James H. Moorhead  Theology Today\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966514622517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300050607","price":33.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300050608.jpg?v=1770819425","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-democratization-of-american-christianity","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}