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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826099903321

Autore

Mahaffey Jerome Dean

Titolo

Preaching politics : the religious rhetoric of George Whitefield and the founding of a new nation / / Jerome Dean Mahaffey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco, : Baylor University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-93000-4

9786610930005

1-60258-084-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; ; 3

Disciplina

269/.2092

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century

United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The quest for American origins -- Whitefield : finding his talents, forming his identity -- American identity -- America awakened -- Toward colonial unification -- The war against arbitrary power -- The deep-laid plot -- A blueprint for revolution -- The legacy of Whitefield.

Sommario/riassunto

The third volume in the Studies in Rhetoric & Religion, Preaching Politics traces the surprising and lasting influence of one of American history's most fascinating and enigmatic figures-George Whitefield. Jerome Mahaffey explores George Whitefield's role in creating a "rhetoric of community" that successfully established a common worldview among the many colonial cultures. Using a rigorous method of rhetorical analysis, Mahaffey cogently argues that George Whitefield directed the evolution of an American collective religious identity that lay underneath the emerging political ideology that fu