Sin in the City
Subtitle: Chicago and Revivalism, 1880??1920
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: July 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780826217431
Subjects: Christian mission & evangelism; Social history; First World War, 1914-1918; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History; Religion - Church History; Religion - Socialissues; History: American; Religion, Politics & State; Sociology of Religion; United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; History / United States; Christianity - History - General; United States - General; Case studies; Chicago; Evangelicalism; Illinois; Revivals; Social aspects
Description: "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.