TY - BOOK ID - 16241702 TI - Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace PY - 2017 SN - 3319518771 3319518763 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - United States KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Religion KW - United States-History. KW - Social history. KW - Religion-History. KW - Civilization-History. KW - US History. KW - Social History. KW - History of Religion. KW - Cultural History. KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - History KW - Sociology KW - United States—History. KW - Religion—History. KW - Civilization—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16241702 AB - This book reveals the origins of the American religious marketplace by examining the life and work of reformer and journalist Orestes Brownson (1803-1876). Grounded in a wide variety of sources, including personal correspondence, journalistic essays, book reviews, and speeches, this work argues that religious sectarianism profoundly shaped participants in the religious marketplace. Brownson is emblematic of this dynamic because he changed his religious identity seven times over a quarter of a century. Throughout, Brownson waged a war of words opposing religious sectarianism. By the 1840s, however, a corrosive intellectual environment transformed Brownson into an arch religious sectarian. The book ends with a consideration of several explanations for Brownson’s religious mobility, emphasizing the goad of sectarianism as the most salient catalyst for change. . ER -