Antirevivalism and Its Discontents: Liberal Evangelicalism, the American City, and the Sunday School, 1900–1929

This article examines the rise of antirevivalism among a certain strain of American evangelicals in the first years of the twentieth century. It argues that, influenced by the new discipline of psychology of religion and growing fear of the chaotic environment of the early twentieth-century city, th...

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Main Author: Bowman, Matthew Burton 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2013
In: Religion and American culture
Year: 2013, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 262-290
Further subjects:B George A. Coe
B Sunday Schools
B psychology of religion
B Henry Sloane Coffin
B Revivalism
B Evangelicalism
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