A cautious enthusiasm : mystical piety and evangelicalism in colonial South Carolina / Samuel C. Smith.

"Examines the religious, social, and political interplay between eighteenth-century evangelicalism and the Anglican establishment in the lowcountry South"--Back cover.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Samuel C. (Samuel Clayton)
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2013], ©2013.
Subjects:
Pietism > South Carolina.
Evangelicalism > South Carolina.
South Carolina > Church history > 18th century.
Physical Description:xii, 259 pages : map, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. 1. Transatlantic roots : origin and transmission
  • "To establish once again the divine image" : mystical reflection, pietistic action, and the transatlantic roots of evangelicalism's rise
  • "A second kind of trinity" : Anglicanism and mystical union
  • pt. 2. Early evangelical contact : paranoia and hegemony
  • "Many Romish and German corruptions" : John Wesley and George Whitefield in Georgia
  • "We know Rome has her seed and harvest missionaries" : George Whitefield in South Carolina
  • pt. 3. Mediating consensus : harmony, significance, and replication
  • Whence the harmony? : evangelical transcendence, country ideology, and consensus in South Carolina
  • "Many moral, good sort of men ... have been awakened" : provincial elites and the search for significance
  • Charleston's "holy club"
  • pt. 4. Negotiating an ethical maze : pietistic flexibility and the sanctification of slavery
  • Reversing the curse : evangelicalism and the coming of slavery to Georgia
  • "To proceed with caution" : the struggle for a safe and sanctified slavery in South Carolina
  • pt. 5. Long-term implications : evangelical secularization and union
  • Corpus reipublicae mysticum : pietistic secularization and political divorce
  • "There is an enthusiasm in politics ... which religious notions inspire" : Henry Laurens, Christopher Gadsden, and the pietistic impulse for union.