Book Review: Adam Morris's 'American Messiahs' is a lively history of messianic folk religion in the U.S.
Separatist faith was baked into the American experiment from the outset. John Winthrop exhorted his Puritan congregants to make themselves a holy city upon a hill before they had even set sail for Boston.
“American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation,” Adam Morris’s lively history of messianic folk religion in the U.S., follows a thread that begins in the 1770s, when a young Quaker named Jemima Wilkinson awoke from a high fever as the Public Universal Friend, an androgynous prophet who rode through war-ravaged New England preaching celibacy, communalism and the coming apocalypse.
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