Search by...
- Keyword
- Title
- Author
- Subject
- Publisher
Results should have...
- All of these words
- Any of these words
- This exact phrase
- None of these words
Keyword searches may also use the operators
AND, OR, NOT, “ ”, ( )
AND, OR, NOT, “ ”, ( )
Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism
Academic journal article from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 109, No. 1
Beginning of article
Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. By ELLEN EsLINGER. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xxi, 306 pp. $38.00.
ELLEN ESLINGER provides a social context for the famous Kentucky revivals of 17981802 and posits a new interpretation of these early episodes of the Great Revival. She correctly maintains that previous scholars of the topic have focused on the revivals themselves and left the impression that participants were primitive farmers whose frontier lifestyles relied on rudimentary economic and political institutions. To remedy this oversight, she devotes the first two-thirds of her book to a thorough description of Kentucky between 1775 …
