Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630-1875.

Ferenc M. Szasz, Richard T. Hughes, Clifford Allen, Robert Ν. Bellah

The American Historical Review · 1990 · 27 citations · 0 references

Abstract

History helps us understand who we are and what we should become. This book demonstrates that primitivism is central to American religion. Primitivism is the dream of restoring religion to a purer order, as found in former times.