Inventing George Whitefield
Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23525571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica M Parr (0009-0003-2516-1978) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 246 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Inventing George Whitefield (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University Press of Mississippi (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461985.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4233613450 |
| Open Library | OL25777750M |
| ISBN | 9781628461985 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In 1770, English missionary George Whitefield died in Newburyport, Massachusetts. His death marked the start of a complex legacy that in many ways rendered Whitefield more powerful and influential in the afterlife than during his considerable career. Whitefield was a religious icon shaped in the complexities of revivalism, the contest over religious toleration, and the conflicting role of Christianity for enslaved people. Pro-slavery Christians saw Christianity as a form of social control for slaves. Evangelical Christianity’s emphasis on “freedom in the eyes of God” also suggested a path to political freedom. The book’s analysis of Whitefield’s fluctuating views on slavery is among the book’s central contributions, as a topic that has not been addressed since the early 1970s, and then only briefly.
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |