| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South. By Philip N. Mulder. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x, 233 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-513163-0.)

The complex societies and profound belief systems early Americans formed in search of the divine defy all attempts at rigid definition. Reacting against the hagiography of the earlier semi-official 'church history' model, some modern scholars have imposed their own meanings on those groups, using the social structures of class, gender, and race as often as the denominational forms preferred by the founders and earlier chroniclers. Hence we have Nathan Hatch's presentation of the democratization of American Christianity and Christine Heyrman's argument for the evolution of radical evangelicals into mainstream paternalists, to mention two prominent examples. . . .

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