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Out of the mouths of babes : girl evangelists in the flapper era / Thomas A. Robinson and Lanette D. Ruff.
LIBRA BV3780 .R63 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Thomas A. (Thomas Arthur), 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girl evangelists--United States--History--20th century.
- Girl evangelists.
- History.
- United States--Church history--20th century.
- United States.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- The golden age of girl evangelists
- Cures for the body and soul
- The changing face of American religion
- Women preachers
- A revolution in manners and morals
- Girl evangelists versus the flappers
- The sexual side of selling salvation
- The poster child of girl evangelists
- The girls as children
- The girls as adults
- The girls as evangelists
- Preaching as performance
- The girls and the media
- Criticism and decline
- Exiting the stage
- Explaining the phenomenon
- Appendix A: The importance of the newspaper record
- Appendix B: Brief biographies
- Appendix C: List of girl evangelists (1920s and 1930s).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199790876
- 0199790876
- OCLC:
- 700468410
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