The self and the sacred
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First publish year 1998
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From about 1740 to 1850, evangelical Protestantism became a major cultural force in virtually all areas of America. Emerging from this religious movement was a rich vernacular literature of conversion narratives and spiritual autobiographies - writings in which believers described their own salvation in hopes of converting others. In The Self and the Sacred, Rodger M.
Payne examines these neglected texts in depth, focusing particularly on what they reveal about notions of selfhood and how those notions were incorporated into Christian orthodoxy.
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