A Time of Sifting Preston H. Blomquist The people on the front

The people on the front lines of America's cultural and demographic debate are Southern Baptist pastors in South Carolina

Canuel draws interesting connections between the debate about beauty and justice and issues in cosmopolitanism

lingering ghosts

archival discoveries added

Rejecting interpretations of millenarianism that chalk it up to class struggle or mass hysteria

A Time of Sifting Preston H. Blomquist The people on the frontExamines the eighteenth century crisis in the Moravian Church known as the Sifting Time, and the church's subsequent shift from radical beliefs and practices to conservative mainstream Protestantism.