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Self-Help and Popular Religion in Early American Culture An Interpretive Guide
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Roy M. Anker
Book Code: GR1136
ISBN: 0-313-31136-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31136-9
256 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/1999
List Price: $101.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: American Popular Culture
Reviews:
  • Libraries with good collections on the topics mentioned might well include Anker's works for their review of relevant secondary sources.
    —Choice
  • Anker... provide[s] an important starting point for further research into the connection between popular religion and self-help traditions....[The book] will provide a reliable resource for those who take up various facets of this project.
    —The Journal of Religion
Description: One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivialism and American Romanticism. The concept of self-help is a distinctive part of the American character of individualism. This volume provides an introductory interpretive guide to major self-help figures and movements with origins in popular religious movements. The opening chapter recounts the perspectives and conclusions of previous histories of American self-help and includes analyses of several important related works. The following chapters present a historical narrative that traces those junctures where American history and popular religion have reputedly and actually intersected. In surveying the historical and scholarly materials that depict the history of popular religion and self-help, this volume emphasizes the historiographical debates that shape the interpretation of the ideas and figures. This reference will serve as a valuable research tool for American religion and popular culture scholars. Arranged chronologically, this volume discusses, in three major sections, the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England; Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, and Individualism; and Revivalism, Religious Experience, and the birth of mental healing. An extensive bibliography is included.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Academic Histories of Self-Help
  • The Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England
  • Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, and Individualism
  • Revivalism, Religious Experience, and the Birth of Mental Healing
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 99-21280
LCC Class: BL2525
Dewey Class: 277
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