TY - BOOK ID - 85469492 TI - The democratic dilemma : religion, reform, and the social order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791-1850 PY - 1987 SN - 051166494X 0521301831 0521317738 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Church and social problems KW - Christianity and social problems KW - Social problems and Christianity KW - Social problems and the church KW - Social problems KW - History KW - Connecticut River Valley KW - Vermont KW - Bāmonto KW - Bāmonto-shū KW - Bimááʼ Hahoodzo KW - Fermont KW - Fomengte KW - Fomengte zhou KW - Fu-mùng-thit KW - Medinat Ṿermont KW - Mons Viridis KW - Politeia tou Vermont KW - Shtat Vermont KW - State of Vermont KW - US-VT KW - Veermont KW - Vèmont KW - Vermons KW - Vermont suyu KW - Vērmonta KW - Vermontas KW - Vermonto KW - Vermuonts KW - VT KW - Vŭrmont KW - Welemoneka KW - Wérmont Shitati KW - Πολιτεία του Βερμόντ KW - Βερμόντ KW - Штат Вермонт KW - Върмонт KW - Вермонт KW - Веермонт KW - מדינת ורמונט KW - ורמונט KW - ווערמאנט KW - バーモント KW - バーモント州 KW - 佛蒙特 KW - 佛蒙特州 KW - Vermont Republic KW - Connecticut Valley KW - Politics and government. KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions. KW - Church history. KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85469492 AB - The Democratic Dilemma seeks to explain Vermonters' extraordinary faith and idealism. It argues that Vermonters, as the most radical democrats of the Age of Revolution and conservators of New England's traditions, faced a dilemma: how to reconcile their commitment to competition, toleration, and popular sovereignty with their desire to defend an orderly and pious way of life. By embedding democratic ideals in their institutions and their society. Denominations and political parties clashed, townspeople and church members proved ungovernable, and young people grew wayward and rebellious. An economic and demographic crisis in the 1830s and 1840s compounded these problems by denying many inhabitants what they wanted most independent shops and farms for themselves and their descendants. None of these problems could he solved without restraining spiritual, political, and economic freedom and compromising the principles of Vermont's revolution. ER -