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New Religious Movements

The Democratization of American Christianity

by Nathan O. Hatch

Hatch argues that the decades after the American Revolution saw a populist transformation of Christianity, led by Methodists, Baptists, the Christian movement, the Latter-day Saints and others. He shows how ordinary believers claimed authority to interpret scripture. An influential work of American religious history.

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