
Reviews
The outstanding essays in this collection survey a broad spectrum of revivalism across ethnic, gender, confessional, and disciplinary boundaries.
Brings together a diverse collection to attract attention, invite reflection, and challenge observers to think in new directions.
McClymond and his contributors should be commended for the work's richness and for providing provocative paths for those making this journey.
The quality of the essays is high, and the volume advances the discussions regarding embodiment and religion in the academy.
There is... clearly significant value in the reading of this work.
This volume sheds new light on both the history and interpretation of revivalism in the North American context, examining the topic from a number of unstudied or understudied perspectives. Further, the book comes at a time when some fresh thinking about revivalism would be most welcome. It is a genuine contribution to the field of American religion.
Revivalism is as American as apple pie—and almost as neglected as a topic of serious historical study. Michael McClymond's perceptive team of contributors greatly deepens what passes for scholarship on American revivalism. A much improved historical understanding will result from this fine book.
Book Details
Preface
Chapter 1. Issues and Explanations in the Study of North American Revivalism
Chapter 2. Locating the Revival: Jonathan Edwards's Northampton as a Site of Social Theory
Chapter 3. Domestic Nurture
Preface
Chapter 1. Issues and Explanations in the Study of North American Revivalism
Chapter 2. Locating the Revival: Jonathan Edwards's Northampton as a Site of Social Theory
Chapter 3. Domestic Nurture versus Clerical Crisis: The Gender Dimension in Horace Bushnell's and Elizabeth Prentiss's Critiques of Revivalism
Chapter 4. Church Architecture and the Second Great Awakening: Revivalism, Space, and Politics
Chapter 5. "A Transitional Period in Belief": Deconversion and the Decline of Campus Revivals in the 1870s
Chapter 6. Francisco Olazábal and Latino Pentecostal Revivalism in the North American Borderlands
Chapter 7. "We Have Heard the Joyful Sound": Charles E. Fuller's Radio Broadcast and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism
Chapter 8. Revivalism in Suburbia: "Son City" and the Origins of the Willow Creek Community Church, 1972–1980
Chapter 9. Keep the Fire Burnin': Language and Ritual in the Afro-Baptist Church
Chapter 10. Catholic Revivalism: The Vincentian Preaching Apostolate in the United States
Chapter 11. "God Is Not a Gentleman!": The Sociology of the Toronto Blessing
Afterword
Notes
List of Contributors
Index