Fits of Political Religion: Stalking Infidelity and the Politics of Moral Reform in Antebellum America.
In the late 1820s evangelical Protestants created Bible, tract, and missionary societies and renewed efforts to suspend Sunday mail delivery. Deistic free enquirers responded by forming their own societies, holding public debates, and publishing newspapers and pamphlets. Evangelical reformers outnum...
| Publicado en: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 288 - 324 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Fall2007
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