Bibliograph

Type

Label

Sin in the city, Chicago and revivalism, 1880-1920, Thekla Ellen Joiner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sin in the city

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

150481226

Responsibility statement

Thekla Ellen Joiner

Review

"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. While most studies of this movement have focused on its male leaders and their interactions with society, Thekla Ellen Joiner raises new questions about gender and race by exploring Third Awakening revivalism as the ritualized performance of an evangelical social system defined by middle-class Protestant aspirations for urban America. Rather than approaching these events merely as the achievements of persuasive men, she views them as choreographed collective rituals reinforcing a moral order defined by ideals of femininity, masculinity, and racial purity." "Sin in the City shows that the legacy of the Third Awakening lives on today in the religious right's sociopolitical activism; crusade for family values; disparagement of feminism; and promotion of spirituality in middle-class, racial, and cultural terms. Providing cultural and gender analysis too often lacking in the study of American religious history, it offers a new model for understanding the development of a gendered theology and set of religious practices that influenced Protestantism in a period of enormous social change."--Jacket

Sub title

Chicago and revivalism, 1880-1920

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "True Christianity" in the Second City: Chicago evangelicals -- Chapter 2. "Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind": The 1893 World's Fair campaign -- Chapter 3. "Convert Chicago through its women!": The 1910 Chapman-Alexander simultaneous campaign -- Chapter 4. "I'll never be an angel if I haven't manhood enough to be a man!": The 1918 Billy Sunday revival -- Conclusion: "Thank you, Lord, for our testosterone:: The end (times) -- Works cited -- Index

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