 | Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution Subjects: Prophets -- United States -- History; Prophecy -- Christianity -- History; United States -- Church history; Prophets -- England -- History; England -- Church history; From the staged debates over religious enthusiasm to the earnest offerings of ordinary men and women to speak to and for God, Doomsayers shows that the contest between prophets and their critics for the allegiance of the reading public was part of a broader recalibration of the norms and values of civic discourse in the age of revolution. Susan Juster is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the author of Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England. |
