Conflagration : how the transcendentalists sparked the American struggle for racial, gender, and social justice / John A. Buehrens.
2020
B905 .B84 2020eb
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Conflagration : how the transcendentalists sparked the American struggle for racial, gender, and social justice / John A. Buehrens.
ISBN
9780807024058 (electronic book)
0807024058 (electronic book)
9780807024041
0807024058 (electronic book)
9780807024041
Published
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2020]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 339 pages) : illustrations
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B905 .B84 2020eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
141/.30973
Summary
"Conflagration illuminates the connections between key members of the Transcendentalist circle--including James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Healey Dall, Elizabeth Stanton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller--who created a community dedicated to radical social activism. These authors and activists laid the groundwork for democratic and progressive religion in America. In the tumultuous decades before and immediately after the Civil War, the Transcendentalists changed nineteenth-century America, leading what Theodore Parker called "a Second American Revolution." They instigated lasting change in American society, not only through their literary achievements but also through their activism: transcendentalists fought for the abolition of slavery, democratically governed churches, equal rights for women, and against the dehumanizing effects of brutal economic competition and growing social inequality. The Transcendentalists' passion for social equality stemmed from their belief in spiritual friendship--transcending differences in social situation, gender, class, theology, and race. Together, their fight for justice changed the American sociopolitical landscape. They understood that none of us can ever fulfill our own moral and spiritual potential unless we care about the full spiritual and moral flourishing of others." -- Publisher's description.
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Table of Contents
Leading dramatis personae
Grandchildren of the revolution
Fire. Exposition
Conviction
Inclusion
Mutual inspiration
Water. Dissolution of the pastoral relation
Affection and vocation
Division because of inclusion
Unequal union, or marriage in the nineteenth century
Tribulation and separation
Earth. Collaboration
Rendition and insurrection
Emancipation
Organization
Spirit. Evolution and differentiation
Circumference and expansion
Succession
Application.
Grandchildren of the revolution
Fire. Exposition
Conviction
Inclusion
Mutual inspiration
Water. Dissolution of the pastoral relation
Affection and vocation
Division because of inclusion
Unequal union, or marriage in the nineteenth century
Tribulation and separation
Earth. Collaboration
Rendition and insurrection
Emancipation
Organization
Spirit. Evolution and differentiation
Circumference and expansion
Succession
Application.