Under the big top : big tent revivalism and American culture, 1885-1925 /

McMullen challenges the pervasive use of the Fundamentalist-Modernist dichotomy for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century American Protestantism. He attempts to do this by examining big tent revivalism in light of the transition from a Victorian to a consumer culture. The book argues that rath...

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Main Author: McMullen, Josh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Summary:McMullen challenges the pervasive use of the Fundamentalist-Modernist dichotomy for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century American Protestantism. He attempts to do this by examining big tent revivalism in light of the transition from a Victorian to a consumer culture. The book argues that rather than mere dour opposition, big tent revivalists participated in the shift away from Victorianism and helped in the construction of a new consumer culture in the United States between the 1880s and the 1920s.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780199397877
0199397872