Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America
Quakers quaked, Shakers shook, and Jumpers jumped. The subjects of this book were certainly not the first religious group to be named for a physical manifestation of their worship. Holy Jumpers were complimented by novelist Jack London and parodied by labor activist Joe Hill in his famous song “Prea...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 145-147 |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Quakers quaked, Shakers shook, and Jumpers jumped. The subjects of this book were certainly not the first religious group to be named for a physical manifestation of their worship. Holy Jumpers were complimented by novelist Jack London and parodied by labor activist Joe Hill in his famous song “Preacher and the Slave.” For London, they were a happy bunch. He even remarked after watching them worship, “[I]f I ever get religion, I want to get their particular brand” (p. 5). Hill lumped the Jumpers with other holy rollers as having a religion that was “pie in the sky. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr018 |
