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<p> Long before today’s culture wars, the “Third Great Awakening” rocked America. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, evangelists such as Dwight L. Moody and Billy Sunday roused citizens to renounce sin as it manifested in popular culture, moral ambiguity, and the changing role of women.</p> <p> <i>Sin in the City</i> examines three urban revivals in turn-of-the-century Chicago to show how revivalists negotiated that era’s perceived racial, sexual, and class threats. While
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- Author
- Joiner, Thekla Ellen
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780826265807
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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