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Self-Help and Popular Religion in Early American Culture : An Interpretive Guide (American Popular Culture)
SelfHelp and Popular Religion in Early American Culture An Interpretive Guide - American Popular Culture Author:Roy M. Anker 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 Revivalism and American Romanticism. The concept of self-help is a distinctive part of the American character of individualism. This volume ... more »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.« less