How Can the Religious Experience of the Past Be Recovered? The Examples of Puritanism and Pietism

Tipson, Baird

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“…Emotions, these scholars argue, are experienced and recorded only after being filtered through a fog of social expectations, ritualized narrative forms, and social and linguistic traditions. 19 Thus, Third Great Awakening Protestant converts such as Thomas Jenkins did not choose conversion in a vacuum, nor were their narratives entirely self-determined. Sunday's followers participated in a long history of American conversion and "enthusiasm" experiences dating back to the early 1700s and including such events as the Methodist "shout tradition," the First Great Awakening led by George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards in the mid-1700s, the revivals of Charles Grandison Finney in the 1820s and 1830s, and the "Businessmen's Revival" of 1858.…”

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Transformation in the Tabernacle: Billy Sunday's Converts and Emotional Experience in the Progressive Era

Young

2015

J. gilded age prog. era

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Millions of Americans watched the evangelist Billy Sunday preach during the years 1905–1935, and many were profoundly affected by the experience. Using letters, published and unpublished reminiscences, and other primary source documents, this article reconstructs the emotional experience of Sunday's converts and offers insights into the meaning of conversion and followership in Sunday's and other similar social movements. Through their emotional responses to the evangelist, followers recast socioeconomic problems and community pressures as personal, internal crises that could be resolved through adherence to Sunday's principles. The process of conversion was considered and volitional; it was also a long-lasting act of self-fashioning. Americans who converted in Sunday's tabernacles thoroughly reinvented themselves as followers of Sunday and then set out to remake society according to the evangelist's goals. Generalizing from these insights, the article argues that followership of inspirational leaders was a site of significant agency for Progressive Era Americans. It also identifies emotional experience as a way for historical figures to translate cultural trends into concrete social action. The article concludes by calling for additional research into how emotions shape and condition historical change.

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Transformation in the Tabernacle: Billy Sunday's Converts and Emotional Experience in the Progressive Era

Young

2015

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“…The Puritans were particularly opposed to the "formal religion" of the English church (Noll, 2003, p. 53); thus, despite their emphasis on predestination, they advanced the concept of a more "heartfelt," "personal" and "internal" faith (p. 54). Accordingly, they came to stress the experiential component of religion, particularly a personal experience of conversion (Noll, 2003;Tipson, 1975).…”

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The Lived Experience of Conversion in the Broader Context of Experience of Faith Formation: A Phenomenological Study of Third- and Greater-generation Seventh-day Adventist Young Adults

Jankiewicz

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While the New Testament Scriptures describe the characteristics of firstgeneration conversion, they do not describe how the children of believers come to Christian faith. Moreover, while there has been considerable empirical research on conversion, very little of it addresses conversion in the lives of those nurtured in faith. As a result, many second-and greater-generation Christians may feel that the term "conversion" does not describe their spiritual experiences. The purpose of this study was TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATION ……………………………………………………… vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ……………………………………………………… viii Chapter 1.

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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism

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How Can the Religious Experience of the Past Be Recovered? The Examples of Puritanism and Pietism

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Transformation in the Tabernacle: Billy Sunday's Converts and Emotional Experience in the Progressive Era

Transformation in the Tabernacle: Billy Sunday's Converts and Emotional Experience in the Progressive Era

The Lived Experience of Conversion in the Broader Context of Experience of Faith Formation: A Phenomenological Study of Third- and Greater-generation Seventh-day Adventist Young Adults

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