TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moyer,Paul Benjamin
TI  - The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and religious enthusiasm in revolutionary America 
SN  - 9780801454134
AV  - BR1719.W5 M69 2015
U1  - 289.9B 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Wilkinson, Jemima,
KW  - Women religious leaders
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women evangelists
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Denominations
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index; Genesis -- Numbers -- Revelation -- Chronicles -- Exodus -- Acts -- Judges
N2  - "In The Public Universal Friend, Paul B. Moyer tells the story of Wilkinson and her remarkable church, the Society of Universal Friends. Wilkinson's message was a simple one: humankind stood on the brink of the Apocalypse, but salvation was available to all who accepted God's grace and the authority of his prophet: the Public Universal Friend. Wilkinson preached widely in southern New England and Pennsylvania, attracted hundreds of devoted followers, formed them into a religious sect, and, by the late 1780s, had led her converts to the backcountry of the newly formed United States, where they established a religious community near present-day Penn Yan, New York. Even this remote spot did not provide a safe haven for Wilkinson and her followers as they awaited the Millennium. Disputes from within and without dogged the sect, and many disciples drifted away or turned against the Friend. After Wilkinson's "second" and final death in 1819, the Society rapidly fell into decline and, by the mid-nineteenth century, ceased to exist. The prophet's ministry spanned the American Revolution and shaped the nation's religious landscape during the unquiet interlude between the first and second Great Awakenings."--Publisher's description
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