Preacher Girl
Subtitle: Uldine Utley and the industry of revival
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Waco, TX
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781481303958
Description: Uldine Utley defined the "girl evangelist" of the 1920s and 1930s. She began her preaching career at age eleven, published a monthly magazine by age twelve, and by age fourteen was regularly packing the largest venues in major American cities, including Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden. She stood toe to toe with Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson, the most famous revivalist preachers of the day. She became a darling of secular press and was mimicked and modeled in fiction and plays. In Preacher Girl, the first full biography of Utley, author Thomas Robinson shows that Utley's rise to fame was no accident. Utley's parents and staff carefully marked out her path early on to headline success. Not unlike Hollywood, revivalism was a business in which celebrity equaled success. Revivalism mixed equal parts of glamour and gospel, making stars of its preachers. Utley was its brightest. -- from back of the book.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Dreaming dreams : from childhood to Hollywood; title: Seeing visions : from call to action; title: Utley, Inc. : from ministry to marketing; title: Utley’s religion : from Pentecostal to Methodist; title: Utley’s revivalism : from novice to stage master; title: "Kindly remove my halo" : from famous to forgotten; title: Conclusion