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Johnson, Curtis Dean was born on July 16, 1949 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Henry Walter and Alice Irene Johnson.
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Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New York, 1790-1860 1st edition by Johnson, Curtis D. (1989) Hardcover
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Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War (American Ways Series) by Johnson, Curtis D. (1993) Paperback
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Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War (American Ways Series)
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In the decades before the Civil War, evangelical Protestants struggled for the mind and soul of America. Their impact on American life had immediate as well as far-reaching consequences, and is the subject of Curtis Johnson's concise and discerning account of a major force in the nation's history. The religious combatants described by Mr. Johnson not only sought to rescue America from Catholics and unbelievers, they battled one another over the meaning, practice, and social implications of their common faith. While prosperous evangelicals often tried to impose their religious understanding on the social and political order, common whites resented this elite meddling in their lives, and black Americans achieved a measure of autonomy by forging a liberating faith. Evangelical battles over biblical interpretation, the Second Birth, personal and national righteousness, and the Second Coming released forces that reverberated throughout antebellum culture. White evangelicals disagreed over the importance of education, the role of emotion, the possibility of personal perfection, and political philosophy. But when large numbers of black and white evangelicals agreed that God could not bless the nation until slavery was abolished, they abandoned their slaveholding co-religionists, and America moved toward Civil War. American Ways Series.
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Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New York, 1790-1860
( Through an examination of religious life in a typical n...)
Through an examination of religious life in a typical northern rural locale—Cortland County, New York—from 1790 to 1860, Curtis D. Johnson adds to our understanding of the Second Great Awakening, an intellectual and religious watershed in American history. Offering both quantitative and qualitative analyses of churches' memberships, ideologies, and activities, he maintains that scholars have misunderstood the historical significance of evangelicalism. Johnson contends that these churches did not constitute society, nor were they microcosms of it; rather, they evolved from embattled congregations of the saved—"islands of holiness"—to ideologically conservative, organizationally unified, integrated parts of society. He uncovers the many diversities of Protestantism in the form of splits between evangelicals and non-evangelicals, formalists and anti-formalists, Arminians and Calvinists, Old School traditionalists and Oberlin perfectionists, church members and religious society members. At the heart of the revivalistic impulse, he argues, was ideological conflict—primarily between Calvinists and Arminians—with gender politics and internal church dynamics also contributing to the evangelical tumult. With a special interest in the Awakening's impact on congregational life, Johnson focuses on rural community experience to challenge the findings of historians who have concentrated exclusively on urban religious expression. He concludes that the importance of the various factions of evangelicalism lies in their common exhortation to republicanism and reform: these congregations, he says, influenced social change out of proportion to their numbers because activism was a central tenet of their religion. Islands of Holiness is a gem of local history. A meticulously researched book, it makes a valuable contribution to an enduring aspect of the social history of American religious expression.
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Curtis Dean Johnson
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Bachelor of Science, Moorhead State University, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1985.
Career
Teacher Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, 1972—1977. Assistant professor history Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, Maryland, 1985—1991. Associate professor history Mount St. Mary's College, since 1991.
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Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New York, 1790-1860
( Through an examination of religious life in a typical n...)
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Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War (American Ways Series)
(In the decades before the Civil War, evangelical Protesta...)
- Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New York, 1790-1860 1st edition by Johnson, Curtis D. (1989) Hardcover
- Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War (American Ways Series) by Johnson, Curtis D. (1993) Paperback
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Islands of Holiness: Rural Religion in Upstate New York, 1790-1860
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Married Lita Anna Krievans, June 26, 1982.
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1972
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1985