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Article: Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2008
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Bearing Witness Against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement. By Michael P. Young. (Chicago, III.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 248. $22.00.)
The author of this study, a sociologist, examines the religious roots of nineteenth-century American social reform movements. Specifically, Michael P. Young seeks to explain historically and sociologically how it came to be that during the 1830s Protestant evangelicals began organizing themselves into interdenominational societies aimed at reforming American moral and social life. During this period, and largely in direct response to the evangelical revivals that had been crisscrossing ...