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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780588903321

Autore

Corrigan John <1952->

Titolo

Business of the heart : religion and emotion in the nineteenth century / / John Corrigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-520-92432-0

1-59734-517-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 389 pages)

Disciplina

277.44/61081

Soggetti

Revivals - Massachusetts - Boston - History - 19th century

Emotions - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - 19th century

Protestants - Massachusetts - Boston - History - 19th century

Businessmen - Religious life - Massachusetts - Boston

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p/99-369) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Religion, Emotion, and the Double Self -- ONE. The Businessmen's Revival -- TWO. The Anxiety of Boston at Mid-Century -- THREE. Overexcitement, Economic Collapse, and the Regulation of Business -- FOUR. Emotion, Collective Performance, and Value -- FIVE. Emotional Religion and the Ministerial "Balance-Wheel" -- SIX. Men, Women, and Emotion -- SEVEN. Domestic Contracts -- EIGHT. Clerks, Apprentices, and Boy culture -- NINE. Prayerful Transactions -- TEN. Emotion, Character, and Ethnicity -- EPILOGUE. The Meaning of the Revival and Its Legacy -- APPENDIX 1. History, Religion, and Emotion: A Historiographical Survey -- APPENDIX 2. Emotion as Heart, Blood, and Body -- APPENDIX 3. Emotion and the Common Sense Philosophy -- Notes -- Selected Manuscript Diaries, Journals, Correspondences, and Papers -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The ""Businessmen's Revival"" was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850's,



John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significance.