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By Norbert Finzsch, Hermann Wellenreuther
Predictions in regards to the global have the facility to grip complete societies, and form the activities of many teams even if operating in politics, ecology or faith. on the finish of epochs and eras people are likely to examine the form of items to return. so much lately, fears in regards to the 'millennium computer virus' had millions dashing to replenish on candles and meals within the weeks prior to New Year's Eve.Concerns concerning the destiny were expressed otherwise all through background. This ebook explores the historic context surrounding a variety of debates, judgements and ideology concerning the destiny in fresh centuries. non secular, political, literary and ecological visions of the long run in the USA and Germany are addressed relatively. specifically, students from the USA and Germany discover the that means of eschatological and utopian ideas pursued over the last 3 centuries and take on topics starting from technology fiction to spiritual radicalism, utopian social experiments, and visions of race kin. This publication delves into the hopes and fears for the long run that experience formed the earlier and should be of curiosity to comparative historians in addition to to historians of Europe and the USA intrigued by way of the topic of utopias.
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Jenkins, The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism (New York and Oxford, 1997), 19–55. 25. Fred Anderson, A People’s Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years’ War (Chapel Hill, NC, 1984), 213–221. 41 A. ”26 Whether one takes as examples the success of William Otterbein among the German Reformed, or the phenomenal response to David Henkel’s strenuous orthodoxy among German Lutherans, many late eighteenth-century North Americans with familial roots in a migration of the pious did not endorse visions of a sentimental or romantic God.
47 This page intentionally left blank American Dreams and European Responses 2 American Dreams and European Responses, from the 1840s to the 1920s William R. ”1 No surprise there. Anyone remotely related, then or now, to the study of such matters would know that Americans have been noted through most of their history for optimism and activism. While the “evolutionistic” label would not have been affixed before the advent of Darwinism, the other elements in Brunner’s description had been common ones for at least a century.
Modest campaigns to restrain the use of alcohol, coupled with women’s insistence on the reforms of asylums and orphanages, and, among the African Methodist Episcopal churches, a determination to achieve at least a modest level of recognition of free black integrity in northern communities, reflected these convictions. 18 Thus, the truly visionary Methodism of dream interpretation and “hot revivalism” that survived the Atlantic crossing and flourished, albeit briefly, may not simply have undergone “embourgeoisification” in the United States.