Beschreibung:
Innerworldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building. Seligman analyzes how cultural assumptions of collective identity and social authority emerged out of the religious beliefs of the first generation of settlers in New England. He goes on to examine how these assumptions crystallized three generations later into patterns of normative order, forming the foundation of an American consciousness. Seligman uses sociological research grounded in early American history as his laboratory, and does so in a highly original way.
Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Charisma, the Church, and the Reformation2 The Origins of Settlement3 Protest and Collective Boundaries4 The Emergent Tensions of Institutionalization5 The Half Way Covenant and the Jeremiad Sermon6 The Institutionalization of Charisma in Society7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex