This book is concerned with religious revivalism in the United States since 1825.
Gaustad , Historical Atlas , pp . 52 and 108-110 ; Shaughnessy , Has the Immigrant Kept the Faith ? pp . ... David Ward , Cities and Immigrants ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1971 ) , pp . 63–64 . 7. Ibid . , p . 75 . 8.
"This book will appeal to scholars and students of popular religion as well as to general readers interested in the subject."--BOOK JACKET.
In this book, George M. Thomas addresses the economic and political context of evangelical revivalism and its historical linkages with economic expansion and Republicanism in the nineteenth century.
This is an important work, which should be read by anyone who is trying to understand nineteenth-century America.
Murray analyses a crucial period in American religious history,with particular attention to the major theme of the nature ofreligious revival. He rejects the common identification of revival & revivalism, showing...
Sin in the City examines three urban revivals in turn-of-the-century Chicago to show how revivalists negotiated that era’s perceived racial, sexual, and class threats.
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Focussing on the lives of these two remarkable figures of twentieth-century Christianity, Revivalism and Social Christianity is the first study in English on the Social Gospel in French Protestantism.
"This book is a discussion of the part played by religious revivalism, and by the American professional religious revivalist, in the religious world of nineteenth-century England.