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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Settlement
1. Treaty with the Six Nations
2. A General View of New York
3. New York Population Growth
4. New York's Environmental Transformation
Part II: Missionaries
5. Timothy Mather Cooley's Missionary Journal
6. Rev. Jacob Cram's Mission
7. Sagoyewatha's Reply to Rev. Jacob Cram
8. Constitution of the Waterloo Missionary Society
9. Reports of Episcopal Missionaries
10. Missionaries to Sailors and Canal Workers
Part III: Revivals
11. Charles Finney's Argument for Religious Revivals
12. Revivals at Marcellus and Amber
13. Report of New York Revivals
14. Bradford King's Conversion
15. Nancy Alexander Tracy's Conversion
16. A Convention to Regulate Revivals
17. Theodore Weld on a Revival's Aftermath
18. Theodore Weld on Revivals and Women's Rights
19. The Grimké Sisters on the Limits of Revivalism and Reform
Part IV: Church Development
20. Brothertown and Religious Autonomy
21. A Baptist Constitution
22. Baptist Trustee Minutes
23. Methodist Population Report
24. Proposal for a Methodist College
25. Building the First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls
26. The Growth of Presbyterianism in the Synod of Geneva
27. A Presbyterian Congregation's Confession of Faith and Covenant
28. Race and Ministry in Wayne County
Part V: Kingdoms of God
29. Joseph Smith's Visions
30. Mormonism's Early Critics
31. Parley P. Pratt Encounters the Book of Mormon
32. William Miller's Biblical Calculations
33. William Miller Defends His Prediction
34. A Historical Rebuttal of Millerism
35. Matthias the Prophet
Part VI: Intentional Communities
36. Shaker Charity
37. The Church Family at Watervliet
38. Account of the Shaker Settlement of Sodus Bay
39. Indenture of Susan Remer to the Shakers of Watervliet
40. Shakers and the Education of Children
41. A Shaker Hymn
42. Complex Marriage
43. John Humphrey Noyes's Home Talks
44. A Rebuttal of Noyes and Perfectionism
Part VII: Religion and New York Politics
45. Abijah Beckwith's Reflections on a Political Career
46. Selections from New York's 1821 Constitution
47. An Anti-Masonic Declaration of Independence
48. Report of the Cayuga County Temperance Society
49. A Sabbatarian Convention
50. The Anti-rent Wars
51. Selections from New York's 1846 Constitution
52. Abijah Beckwith's Consideration of Civil Rights for Women
Part VIII: Abolitionism and Ultraism in the Burned-over District
53. Rev. Thomas James on Antislavery Activism
54. New York Governor William L. Marcy Denounces Abolitionism
55. New York Methodists on Abolitionism
56. Establishing an Antislavery Newspaper
57. Resolutions of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society
58. Creating Antislavery Petitions
59. How to Be an Abolitionist
60. Gerrit Smith's Critique of the Clergy on Abolitionism
61. The Jerry Rescue
Conclusion: The Legacy of the Burned-over District

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 15 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9781501770531
      978-1501770531
      ISBN-10 1501770535
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Part I: Settlement
      1. Treaty with the Six Nations
      2. A General View of New York
      3. New York Population Growth
      4. New York's Environmental Transformation
      Part II: Missionaries
      5. Timothy Mather Cooley's Missionary Journal
      6. Rev. Jacob Cram's Mission
      7. Sagoyewatha's Reply to Rev. Jacob Cram
      8. Constitution of the Waterloo Missionary Society
      9. Reports of Episcopal Missionaries
      10. Missionaries to Sailors and Canal Workers
      Part III: Revivals
      11. Charles Finney's Argument for Religious Revivals
      12. Revivals at Marcellus and Amber
      13. Report of New York Revivals
      14. Bradford King's Conversion
      15. Nancy Alexander Tracy's Conversion
      16. A Convention to Regulate Revivals
      17. Theodore Weld on a Revival's Aftermath
      18. Theodore Weld on Revivals and Women's Rights
      19. The Grimké Sisters on the Limits of Revivalism and Reform
      Part IV: Church Development
      20. Brothertown and Religious Autonomy
      21. A Baptist Constitution
      22. Baptist Trustee Minutes
      23. Methodist Population Report
      24. Proposal for a Methodist College
      25. Building the First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls
      26. The Growth of Presbyterianism in the Synod of Geneva
      27. A Presbyterian Congregation's Confession of Faith and Covenant
      28. Race and Ministry in Wayne County
      Part V: Kingdoms of God
      29. Joseph Smith's Visions
      30. Mormonism's Early Critics
      31. Parley P. Pratt Encounters the Book of Mormon
      32. William Miller's Biblical Calculations
      33. William Miller Defends His Prediction
      34. A Historical Rebuttal of Millerism
      35. Matthias the Prophet
      Part VI: Intentional Communities
      36. Shaker Charity
      37. The Church Family at Watervliet
      38. Account of the Shaker Settlement of Sodus Bay
      39. Indenture of Susan Remer to the Shakers of Watervliet
      40. Shakers and the Education of Children
      41. A Shaker Hymn
      42. Complex Marriage
      43. John Humphrey Noyes's Home Talks
      44. A Rebuttal of Noyes and Perfectionism
      Part VII: Religion and New York Politics
      45. Abijah Beckwith's Reflections on a Political Career
      46. Selections from New York's 1821 Constitution
      47. An Anti-Masonic Declaration of Independence
      48. Report of the Cayuga County Temperance Society
      49. A Sabbatarian Convention
      50. The Anti-rent Wars
      51. Selections from New York's 1846 Constitution
      52. Abijah Beckwith's Consideration of Civil Rights for Women
      Part VIII: Abolitionism and Ultraism in the Burned-over District
      53. Rev. Thomas James on Antislavery Activism
      54. New York Governor William L. Marcy Denounces Abolitionism
      55. New York Methodists on Abolitionism
      56. Establishing an Antislavery Newspaper
      57. Resolutions of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society
      58. Creating Antislavery Petitions
      59. How to Be an Abolitionist
      60. Gerrit Smith's Critique of the Clergy on Abolitionism
      61. The Jerry Rescue
      Conclusion: The Legacy of the Burned-over District

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