Evangelicals at a crossroads : revivalism & social reform in Boston, 1860-1910

The Resource Evangelicals at a crossroads : revivalism & social reform in Boston, 1860-1910
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Evangelicals at a crossroads : revivalism & social reform in Boston, 1860-1910
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revivalism & social reform in Boston, 1860-1910
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Benjamin L. Hartley
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Benjamin L. Hartley brings to light the story of relative latecomers to Boston's religious scene: Methodist, Salvation Army, Baptist, and nondenominational Christians. Focusing on Congregationalists and Roman Catholics, Boston urban historians have largely overlooked these groups. Hartley sheds light on the role of immigrant evangelical leaders from Italy, Sweden, and elsewhere in revivalism and social reform in postbellum Boston. Further, examining the contested nature of revivalism and social reform in a particular, local nineteenth-century context provides a basis for understanding the roots of current divisions in American Protestantism and the contentious role of evangelical religion in American politics. Hartley documents the importance of the American holiness movement as a precursor to the significant presence of Pentecostal groups in urban America. --from publisher description
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non fiction
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Revisiting New England : the new regionalism

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