Religious and Secular Reform in America: Ideas, Beliefs, and Social Change

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David K. Adams, Cornelius A. Van Minnen
NYU Press, 1999 - History - 273 pages

From its earliest days, the United States has provided fertile ground for reform movements to flourish. In this volume, twelve eminent historians assess religious and secular reform in America from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The essays offer a mix of general overviews and specific case studies, addressing such topics as radical religion in New England, leisure in antebellum America, Sabbatarianism, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and Evangelicalism, social reform, and the U.S. welfare state.
Suitable for students, the essays, each based on original research, will also be of interest to researchers and academics working in this area, as well as to all those with an interest in the history of religious and secular reform in America.

 

Contents

Reform Authority and Conflict in the Churches of
1
Radical Religion and
29
Unitarian Voluntary Societies and the Revision of Elite
51
Orestes Brownson and the Relationship between Reform
77
The Radical
91
Reforming Leisure in Antebellum
121
The Intersection of Church and State
133
The Womans Christian Temperance Union Reform
159
The Great War and
179
Progressivism Poststructuralism and the Writing
205
The Struggle
231
Evangelicalism Social Reform and the US Welfare State
249
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About the author (1999)

David K. Adams is Professor of American Studies and Director of the David Bruce Centre at Keele University in England. Cornelius A. Van Minnen is Executive Director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands.

Bibliographic information

TitleReligious and Secular Reform in America: Ideas, Beliefs, and Social Change
EditorsDavid K. Adams, Cornelius A. Van Minnen
PublisherNYU Press, 1999
ISBN081470686X, 9780814706862
Length273 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / United States / General
Religion / Christian Church / History
Religion / Christianity / General
Religion / Christianity / History
Religion / General
Religion / History
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology of Religion
  
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