And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845

by Dickson D. Bruce Jr.

The author combines approaches from history, social anthropology, and folklore to study camp-meeting religion itself and the camp-meeting that flourished in the ante-bellum South.

172 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Anne (In Search of Wonder) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐

Interesting analysis of frontier culture in the South, particularly the popular camp meeting revivals that took place there in the early nineteenth century. Contains an analysis of the choruses that were sung during the revivals. I didn't always agree with the analysis part, but the history was very interesting.