religious providence experience dimensions

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Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island
Mark S. Schantz

Cornell University Press, 2000

At the start of the nineteenth century, churches in Providence sought to bring together rich and poor "as Members of One great Family." Within a few decades, however, congregations had split along class lines, with plebeian men and women choosing to worship at their own meetinghouses. In this innovative and compelling history, Mark S. Schantz explores the relationship between religious culture and class formation in a New England city. ...

Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death

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Mark S. Schantz

Cornell University Press, 2008

the old, weird America
In "Awaiting the Heavenly Country," Mark Schantz leads his reader on a tour of the fascinating and often perverse world of 19th Century death literature, philosophy, and photography. What about those post-mortem pictures of Aunt Ida on the mantle? Wondering how your friends will recognize you in heaven? How could they read and enjoy all that bad poetry about the romantic deaths of young people? ...