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Business of the heart : religion and emotion in the nineteenth century

The 'Businessmen's Revival' was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significance
eBook, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2002
History
1 online resource (xii, 389 pages)
9780520924321, 9781417523580, 9780520221963, 0520924320, 1417523581, 0520221966
55891195
Introduction: Religion, emotion, and the double self
The businessmen's revival
The anxiety of Boston at mid-century
Overexcitement, economic collapse, and the regulation of business
Emotion, collective performance and value
Emotional religion and the ministerial "balance-wheel"
Men-women, and emotion
Domestic contracts
Clerks, apprentices, and boyculture
Prayerful transactions
Emotion, character, and ethnicity
Epilogue: The meaning of the revival and its legacy
Appendix 1. History, religion, and emotion: a historiographical survey
Appendix 2. Emotion as heart, blood, and body
Appendix 3. Emotion and the common sense philosophy