Canada Fire

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• Part 1 The radical evangelical paradigm established: the maritime experience, Henry Alline (1748-1784); the shaping of the conversion paradigm, William Black (1760-1834); methodist new light?, David George (1743-1810); black Nova Scotian new light baptist, Freeborn Garrettson (1752-1827); a methodist new light. Harris Harding (1761-1854); an Allinite new light indeed. Part 2 The evolving radical evangelical ethos of Canada - from Nova Scotia to upper Canada and back: The Nova Scotia new lights - from the bottom up, 1785-1793; The Canada fire - methodist radical evangelicalism in upper Canada, 1784-1812; "A total revolution in religious and civil government" - the evolving radical evangelical ethos of British North America, 1775-1812 Part 3 The evangelical rituals - camp meetings, believer's baptism, and the long communion: "a powerful means of awakening and converting souls" - the Hay Bay camp meeting, September 1805; the rage for dipping, Joseph Crandall, Elijah Estabrooks, and believer's baptism, 1795-1800; new lights, presbyterians, James MacGregor, and Nova Scotia's first long communion, July 1788.

"This remarkable account should make historians of the United States rethink assumptions that populist religion was premised on commitments to democratic politics." George Marsden, Department of History, University of Notre Dame. "The detailed and vivid pictures of the men and women who were the heart and soul of Canadian radical evangelicalism combined with the descriptive analysis of the movement's key institutions will keep students of the subject, whether academics or evangelical clerics, coming back to this work." Allen P. Stouffer, Department of History, St Francis Xavier University.