04713nam 2200745 450 991078651650332120210427030905.00-8122-9014-310.9783/9780812290141(CKB)3710000000213178(OCoLC)886597842(CaPaEBR)ebrary10896789(SSID)ssj0001267497(PQKBManifestationID)11740399(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001267497(PQKBWorkID)11255808(PQKB)10085347(MdBmJHUP)muse35470(DE-B1597)449867(DE-B1597)9780812290141(Au-PeEL)EBL3442393(CaPaEBR)ebr10896789(CaONFJC)MIL682529(MiAaPQ)EBC3442393(EXLCZ)99371000000021317820140726h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe altar at home sentimental literature and nineteenth-century American religion /Claudia Stokes1st ed.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2014.©20141 online resource (290 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51247-7 0-8122-4637-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --Introduction --Chapter 1. Revivals of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and the Second Great Awakening --Chapter 2. My Kingdom: Sentimentalism and the Refinement of Hymnody --Chapter 3. The Christian Plot: Stowe, Millennialism, and Narrative Form --Chapter 4. Derelict Daughters and Polygamous Wives: Mormonism and the Uses of Sentiment --Chapter 5. The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsDisplays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature, Claudia Stokes counters the long-standing characterization of sentimental piety as blandly nondescript and demonstrates that these works were in fact groundbreaking, assertive, and highly specific in their theological recommendations and endorsements. The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, from the growth of Methodism in the Second Great Awakening and popular millennialism to the developing theologies of Mormonism and Christian Science. Through analysis of numerous contemporary religious debates, Stokes demonstrates how sentimental writers, rather than offering simple depictions of domesticity, instead manipulated these scenes to advocate for divergent new beliefs and bolster their own religious authority. On the one hand, the comforting rhetoric of domesticity provided a subtle cover for sentimental writers to advance controversial new beliefs, practices, and causes such as Methodism, revivalism, feminist theology, and even the legitimacy of female clergy. On the other hand, sentimentality enabled women writers to bolster and affirm their own suitability for positions of public religious leadership, thereby violating the same domestic enclosure lauded by the texts. The Altar at Home offers a fascinating new historical perspective on the dynamic role sentimental literature played in the development of innumerable new religious movements and practices, many of which remain popular today.Religion and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centurySentimentalism in literatureChristianity in literatureAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismCultural Studies.Literature.Religion.Religious Studies.Religion and literatureHistorySentimentalism in literature.Christianity in literature.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.810.9/3823Stokes Claudia1970-1559424MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786516503321The altar at home3824507UNINA02511oam 2200433 450 99620077500331620170523091618.0981-230-730-310.1355/9789812307309(OCoLC)527383149(MiFhGG)GVRL2QRI(EXLCZ)99250000000000136220070416d2007 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe population of Peninsular Malaysia /Saw Swee-HockReprint edition.Singapore :Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,2007.1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) illustrations, mapGale eBooks981-230-427-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF APPENDIX TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE / Swee-Hock, Saw -- PREFACE TO THE REPRINT EDITION 2007 / Swee-Hock, Saw -- 1. Introduction -- 2. International Migration -- 3. Population Growth, Distribution and Structure -- 4. Internal Population Movements -- 5. Mortality Trends and Differentials -- 6. Nuptiality Trends and Patterns -- 7. Fertility Trends and Differentials -- 8. Labour Force -- 9. Future Population Trends -- Appendix A: Abridged Life Tables -- Appendix B: Abridged Male Working Life Tables -- Appendix C: Population Projections, 1980-2020 -- Appendix D: Sources of Demographic Statistics -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXThis book, a reprint project of the Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, covers the duration from the time when data are available up to the early eighties. The book presents a comprehensive study of the multiracial population of the region for the period under consideration. The strength of the book lies in the author's deep familiarity with the country where he was educated up to secondary level, and even taught for some years in the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, in the sixties.SOCIAL SCIENCE / DemographybisacshMalaysiaPopulationMalaysiaStatistics, VitalSOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography.304.6/095951Swee-Hock Saw, 644670MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK996200775003316The Population of Peninsular Malaysia2224237UNISA