Throughout history historians have explored and researched the different ways that religious revivals and reform movements have configured gendered, racial, and economic power. Religious history has always been characterized by optimism towards the future and in America; specifically people felt that they could remake the world using faith as their motivation and mold it into a perfect society. The changes and molding that religious people wanted to make was believed to be ordered by God using sources like the Bible, the Book of Mormon, direct revelations (ex. visions, trances, dreams and divination) and re incarnation of God or another religious figure. But to what extent were the ideas about race, gender, and wealth in different revivals,
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Johnson and Sean Wilentz, Mattias is converted to Utopianism through revivalism. He seemed crazy to some people and passionate to others as he preached with “rage” and “taught Truth to the dying world” (93). In chapter three, Matthias transformed himself into a disciple chosen by God, gained many followers including Sylvester Mills and Elijah Pierson, and then created a utopian and patriarchal society in which he governed. This is an example of a radical utopianism because it was based on complete social …show more content…
A protestant christian might argue that it was the responsibility of the slaveholder to convert their slave(s) to christianity. However, in a way christian slaveholders were using christianity to teach their slaves about obedience, compliance, and deference to white their masters. The shift in protestant-christian thoughts had a large impact on configuring white racial power because it made christianity and slaveholding more comfortable and while teaching the slaves christianity they were also teaching them that white people have control over them. This is an example of a radical reformation because christianity didn’t originally believe that slaveholding was morally right. It was a change that affected the fundamental nature of their
Johnson and Sean Wilentz, Mattias is converted to Utopianism through revivalism. He seemed crazy to some people and passionate to others as he preached with “rage” and “taught Truth to the dying world” (93). In chapter three, Matthias transformed himself into a disciple chosen by God, gained many followers including Sylvester Mills and Elijah Pierson, and then created a utopian and patriarchal society in which he governed. This is an example of a radical utopianism because it was based on complete social …show more content…
A protestant christian might argue that it was the responsibility of the slaveholder to convert their slave(s) to christianity. However, in a way christian slaveholders were using christianity to teach their slaves about obedience, compliance, and deference to white their masters. The shift in protestant-christian thoughts had a large impact on configuring white racial power because it made christianity and slaveholding more comfortable and while teaching the slaves christianity they were also teaching them that white people have control over them. This is an example of a radical reformation because christianity didn’t originally believe that slaveholding was morally right. It was a change that affected the fundamental nature of their