id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt q237hq40826 Richard Bryan Bademan Contesting the Evangelical Age: Protestant Challenges to Religious Subjectivity in Antebellum America 2004 .txt text/plain 339 11 27 Concerned that religious and political cultures were too readily blending into each other--to the detriment of both--leading Protestants criticized populist evangelicalism for its easy accommodation to and sanction of American cultural norms. Most important, in their contest with evangelical notions of the church as an invisible and ideal community of truly regenerate humans, churchly Protestants insisted that the church was also a visible body of Christians who gather regularly for worship in specific locations. cache/q237hq40826.txt txt/q237hq40826.txt