Looks at changes in the Christian church just after the American Revolution, and explains how the desire for democracy led to the rise of new religious movements (view table of contents)

Product Description: Fudge (history, U. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand) situates the story of preacher Daniel Warner and the Church of God movement within the larger narrative of 19th-century American Protestantism, focusing less on Warner himself than on the tensions involved in the struggle between history and the myths that religious movements often create around their founders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)