Overview
- Explores the meaning of sectarianism in nineteenth-century America through Orestes Brownson’s life and writings
- Shows how religious mobility shaped belief in antebellum America and how people responded to religious choice and division
- Offers a psychological portrait of Brownson and his approach to religious mobility
Part of the book series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000 (HISASE)
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“Orestes Brownson -- Presbyterian, Universalist, Freethinker, Transcendentalist, and finally Roman Catholic apologist -- has long puzzled historians of American religion and intellectual life. At times he appears no more than a smart and articulate shuttlecock, bouncing from creed to creed for his own idiosyncratic, ever-changing reasons. By placing Brownson in the context of the sectarian Protestant religious marketplace of pre-Civil War America, Angel Cortes allows us to grasp the coherent dynamic underlying the apparent instability of this major American intellectual.” (James Turner, Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, USA)
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Book Title: Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace
Authors: Ángel Cortés
Series Title: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51877-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51876-3Published: 21 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84767-2Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51877-0Published: 10 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3351
Series E-ISSN: 2946-336X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 178
Topics: US History, Social History, History of Religion, Cultural History