| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Sin in the City: Chicago and Revivalism, 1880–1920. By Thekla Ellen Joiner. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xvi, 271 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1743-1.)
Three citywide revivals provide the framework for Thekla Ellen Joiner's analysis of gender, race, and religion in turn-of-the-century Chicago. She argues that conservative evangelicals used racialized and gendered rhetoric to assert moral control over the sprawling city, and suggests that those campaigns set the stage for the evangelical agenda in the "culture wars" of the present day.	1
The narrative begins with an account of the World's Fair campaign in 1893. Unhappy with the pluralistic message of the Parliament of Religions and the organizers' decision to open on Sundays, conservative Protestants employed the socially charged message of the social purity movement to mount a much broader campaign against the city's moral woes. Joiner analyzes the platform rhetoric of the central figure Dwight L. Moody to argue that the heart of the revival was social control. Though Moody relied on standard language about godly womanhood to bring the city to Christ, he was seeking to empower them only to a point. The real goal of the revival, says Joiner, was to target white, middle-class men for conversion.	. . .

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