HIST 2055 Chapter : Sep 14 Outline
Document Summary
In south (virginia and down) there"s the church of england (even if you were baptist, you paid taxes to support the church: hard to describe middle colonies. In the colonies as a whole few catholic and jews. Incredible array of protestants (quakers, dutch puritans, baptist, presbyterian, pietistic: all these different groups can exist (tolerated), but only within the state church, outbreak of revival. If you are saved in the emotional feeling, if you believe that christ enters and changes you; the experience gives you the very sense of surety that you don"t have in a traditional religious experience. Impersonal and distant: stressed that you think your way to god and the right behavior, revivalist believed that god comes in an emotional experiences. Government and deferential politics in the colonies: king, parliament, structure at home, theory: mercantilism, english presence in the colonies, england"s government of the colonies. Deferential society and politics: virginia voting as an example.
