LEADER 05029nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910787520603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0238-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202380 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418312 035 $a(OCoLC)859161123 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748626 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035911 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11652003 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035911 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041020 035 $a(PQKB)11297417 035 $a(OCoLC)868216986 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26726 035 $a(DE-B1597)449097 035 $a(OCoLC)979576335 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202380 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442194 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748626 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442194 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418312 100 $a20060808e20062003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDoomsayers$b[electronic resource] $eAnglo-American prophecy in the age of Revolution /$fSusan Juster 205 $a1st paperback ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American studies 300 $aOriginally published: 2003. 311 $a1-322-51059-8 311 $a0-8122-1951-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1 The Making of a Prophet --$t2 Varieties of Prophecy: Fortune- Tellers, Visionists, and Millenarians --$t3 Body and Soul: The Epistemology of Revelation --$t4 Millenarian. Politics: Language and the Public Sphere --$t5 A Rogues' Gallery: Richard Brothers and Nimrod Hughes --$t6 Women of Revelation: Jemima Wilkinson and Joanna Southcott --$tEpilogue --$tIndex 330 $aThe age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted both in the primitive worldview of the Old Testament and in the vibrant intellectual environment of the philosophers and their political allies, the republicans. In Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution, Susan Juster examines the culture of prophecy in Great Britain and the United States from 1765 to 1815 side by side with the intellectual and political transformations that gave the period its historical distinction as the era of enlightened rationalism and democratic revolution. Although sometimes viewed as madmen or fools, prophets of the 1790's and early 1800's were very much products of a liberal commercial society, even while they registered their disapproval of the values and practices of that society and fought a determined campaign to return Protestant Anglo-America to its biblical moorings. They enjoyed greater visibility than their counterparts of earlier eras, thanks to the creation of a vigorous new public sphere of coffeehouses, newspapers, corresponding societies, voluntary associations, and penny pamphlets. Prophecy was no longer just the art of applying biblical passages to contemporary events; it was now the business of selling both terror and reassurance to eager buyers. Tracking the careers of several hundred men and women in Britain and North America, most of ordinary background, who preached a message of primitive justice that jarred against the cosmopolitan sensibilities of their audiences, Doomsayers explores how prophetic claims were formulated, challenged, tested, advanced, and abandoned. The stories of these doomsayers, whose colorful careers entertained and annoyed readers across the political spectrum, challenge the notion that religious faith and the Enlightenment represented fundamentally alien ways of living in and with the world. From the debates over religious enthusiasm staged by churchmen and the literati to the earnest offerings of ordinary men and women to speak to and for God, Doomsayers shows that the contest between prophets and their critics for the allegiance of the Anglo-American reading public was part of a broader recalibration of the norms and values of civic discourse in the age of revolution. 606 $aProphets$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aProphecy$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aProphets$zEngland$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history 607 $aEngland$xChurch history 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 615 0$aProphets$xHistory. 615 0$aProphecy$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aProphets$xHistory. 676 $a231.7/45/097309033 700 $aJuster$b Susan$01480447 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787520603321 996 $aDoomsayers$93697099 997 $aUNINA