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I know the British mercantile policy deals in economics and ministers deal in religion. I don't see how they connect though. I have searched on google.com (sorry, yahoo =)) and on yahoo.com (happy now yahoo?) and the much outdated and forgotten but still loveable www.altavista.com

2007-08-21 16:38:14 · 4 answers · asked by changeling12234 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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With sour distaste - - - Prosperity meant more people meant more people doing 'bad' things, spending money on luxeries when gosh darn it they should be answerings God's Dictates to devote time to worshiping God and not go off to plays & reading books & pamplets, all of which were a result of the British Mercantile Policy. British Ships were out to make profits, not profit God but to profit the London Merchant Communitty, etc. Profit by trading in luxeries such as silks and Madeira Wine and Rum, and to obtain the Rum, the trafficking of Slaves to Caribbean Plantations for the Sugar Cane Industry, which was a luxery itself, for thousand of years people had done alright without processed Sugar....
Disdain, anger, yet it should be said that like many an Evangelical, Whiteside & Edwards among others, benefited from the Mercantile System, I hardly think either one would have traded silk underwear for coarse wool...

Here is a link and blurb...

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/histryotln/colonial.htm
"""The increasing prosperity of the towns prompted fears that the devil was luring society into pursuit of worldly gain and may have contributed to the religious reaction of the 1730s, known as the Great Awakening. Its two immediate sources were George Whitefield, a Wesleyan revivalist who arrived from England in 1739, and Jonathan Edwards, who served the Congregational Church in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Whitefield began a religious revival in Philadelphia and then moved on to New England. He enthralled audiences of up to 20,000 people at a time with histrionic displays, gestures, and emotional oratory. Religious turmoil swept throughout New England and the middle colonies as ministers left established churches to preach the revival.

Edwards was the most prominent of those influenced by Whitefield and the Great Awakening. His most memorable contribution was his 1741 sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Rejecting theatrics, he delivered his message in a quiet, thoughtful manner, arguing that the established churches sought to deprive Christianity of its function of redemption from sin. His magnum opus, Of Freedom of Will (1754), attempted to reconcile Calvinism with the Enlightenment.

The Great Awakening gave rise to evangelical denominations (those Christian churches that believe in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible) and the spirit of revivalism, which continue to play significant roles in American religious and cultural life. It weakened the status of the established clergy and provoked believers to rely on their own conscience. Perhaps most important, it led to the proliferation of sects and denominations, which in turn encouraged general acceptance of the principle of religious toleration.""

And I'll throw you this link but it is a bit odd, but heck you might find it usefull.. It should also be said that all societies feel the need to have a 'Villain,' ("boo, hiss"), circa 2007 in America, Engery Company Executives and Insurance Execs, back during the 1700's the vilains were 'London Merchants,' who were making 'extravegant profits,' hence an Awakening Preacher could easilly incite a Mob by speaking out agaiinst expensive imported and even cheap goods, the sheer prolifferatsion of stuff was a bone of contention, some trade goods were 'dumped' on colonies and that caused woe & anger, especially when a local person was no longer able to compete with their home crafted items. Same thing happen to India when cheap imported cloth nearly killed local industry....

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_early_republic/toc/jer26.2.html
"""In 1787, Jacob Norton became pastor of a somewhat moribund Congregational parish in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Like other parishes of the region in the postrevolutionary era, it lacked for new members. By 1804, Norton and his parishioners found themselves awash in revival activity that produced an abundance of new members. This essay uses Norton's situation in Weymouth during these years, as well as his reading diaries, to examine how the print revolution of the 1790s in New England related to the shift in sensibility scholars have come to call "the Second Great Awakening." I argue that the expansion of the world of print that Norton and those like him experienced had a direct impact on their willingness to see local events as part of a much larger spiritual and political movement. The wide dissemination of new types of printed materials, especially regionally published periodicals, created a shared sensibility among New England evangelicals led to the construction of a shared "social imaginary." Norton and his Weymouth parish provide a case study in the role print played in the initial reconstruction of the ideological world of the earliest cohort of Congregational evangelicals, whose efforts within a generation gave rise to the Benevolent Empire.
Jacob Norton, Second Great Awakening, New England, revivalism, reading, print, revolution, diaries, Congregationalism, evangelical, ministers, Weymouth, Massachusetts, periodical press """



Peace...............................

2007-08-21 20:13:57 · answer #1 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 2 0

Here is one connection.

The ministers of the Great Awakening were big believers in spreading the word. Many sought to spread the word in all sorts of exotic locations, all over the Empire. Thus a lot of them became missionaries and did quite a bit of linguistic work in order to translate bibles and tracts. This linguistic work was often used by merchants. These same missionaries often set up schools in order to train natives as missionaries. These schools ended up providing the bulk of bureaucrats to the colonial administrations as well as the trading companies.

For first person accounts, I'd check the first person accounts from the Boxer Rebellion in China and the Sepoy Mutiny in India. I've seen some by ministers in both cases, although I haven't the direct information here.

2007-08-21 17:00:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

bearstirringfromcave gave a great Answer. In fact, I was about to provide the exact link to the Journal of the Early Republic that was provided by that user.

In my source is a link to Google Scholar, which has search hits you may find useful. Some of the hits are from JSTOR (which means you either must have access via a university or must pay for the ebook in order to read the books fully), though a random page is given freely and you can still use the info on those pages (the site even gives you info for you to cite).

Good Luck!

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2016-10-09 00:22:47 · answer #4 · answered by newmans 3 · 0 0

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