Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era
Priscilla Pope-Levison
Abstract
During the Progessive Era, a period of unprecedented ingenuity, women evangelists built the old time religion with brick and mortar, uniforms and automobiles, fresh converts and devoted protégés. Across America, entrepreneurial women founded churches, denominations, religious training schools, rescue homes, rescue missions, and evangelistic organizations. Until now, these intrepid women have gone largely unnoticed, though their collective yet unchoreographed decision to build institutions in the service of evangelism marked a seismic shift in American Christianity. This study dusts off the unp ... More
Keywords: Progessive Era, women evangelists, old time religion, entrepreneurial women, evangelism, American Christianity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780814723845 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: March 2016 | DOI:10.18574/nyu/9780814723845.001.0001 |
