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Article: Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. By Ellen Eslinger. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 306. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-033-3.)
Emotional conversions, fiery sermons, overnight stays: the camp meeting, which grew out of the Great Revival of the early 1800s, has long attracted the attention of social and religious historians. Ellen Eslinger's Citizens of Zion makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of this subject with an indepth look at the social origins of camp meetings in Kentucky. Eslinger attempts to revise traditional interpretations of the Second Great Awakening, that, she argues, still dominate ...