To Walk the Earth Again: The Politics of Resurrection in Early America

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Christopher Trigg (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

To Walk the Earth Again

The Politics of Resurrection in Early America

Christopher Trigg (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
19 June 2023

Church history; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Christian spirituality & religious experience

Series: RELIGION IN AMERICA SERIES

The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. By reading histories, epic poetry, funeral sermons, and scientific tracts alongside works of eschatological exegesis, Trigg challenges the conventional scholarly assumption that Protestantism's rejection of purgatory prepared the way for the individualization and secularization of Western attitudes towards mortality.

Puritans, Anglicans, Quakers, and radicals looked to resurrection to understand their communities' prospects in the uncertain terrain of colonial America. Their belief that political identities and religious duties did not expire with their mortal bodies but were carried over into the next life shaped their positions on a wide variety of issues, including the limits of ecclesiastical and civil power, the relationship of humanity to the natural world, and the emerging rhetoric of racial difference. In the early national and antebellum periods, secular and Christian reformers drew on the idea of resurrection to imagine how American republicanism might transform society and politics and ameliorate the human form itself. By taking early modern Protestant beliefs seriously, Trigg unfolds new perspectives on their mutually constitutive visions of earthly and resurrected existence.

By: Christopher Trigg (Assistant Professor of English Assistant Professor of English Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 599g
ISBN: 9780197652756
ISBN 10: 0197652751
Series: RELIGION IN AMERICA SERIES
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 19 June 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Resurrection in the New World Chapter 1: Resurrection, Selfhood, and the Church Chapter 2: Cotton Mather and the First Resurrection Chapter 3: Resurrection's Racial Politics Chapter 4: Thomas Prince and the Resurrection of the World Chapter 5: Secular Resurrections Coda: Resurrection hereafter

Christopher Trigg is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His work on colonial and modern American religious culture has appeared in American Literature, Early American Literature, and Political Theology.

Reviews for To Walk the Earth Again: The Politics of Resurrection in Early America

Responsibly and creatively blending the methodologies of theology, history, political analysis, and literary criticism,... Trigg's book is informative and scholarly, and also an easy read. * Choice *