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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals

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Social dancing inconsistent with a Christian profession and baptismal vows: a sermon, preached in the Presbyterian Church, Columbia, S.C., June 17, 1849, by B. M. Palmer, pastor.

Palmer, B. M. 1818-1902. (Benjamin Morgan),

OTHER TITLES
Sermon on social dancing

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Columbia, Printed at the Office of the South Carolinian, 1849.

SUMMARY
Taken from a sermon delivered 17 June 1849, Palmer's book is typical of midnineteenth-century antidance literature. He declares that the seventeen references to dance in the Bible are all performed by one sex, in open fields, and in broad daylight. This, Palmer (1818-1902) concludes, is not the case with balls, in which the sexes dance together, in closed quarters, and at night. The author declares that human nature is "fallen and depraved, and subject to the domination of wicked passions," therefore, attending balls is promiscuous, demoralizing, and inconsistent with baptismal vows.

SUBJECTS
Dance--Religious aspects--Christianity--Sermons.
Sermons, American.
Antidance Literature.

MEDIUM
23 p. 19 cm.

CALL NUMBER
GV1741 .P3

DIGITAL ID
musdi 130 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.130

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