Article: The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism.(Review)

The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism. By Robert William Fogel. University of Chicago Press, 320 pp., $25.00.

ROBERT WILLIAM FOGEL, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, won the 1993 Nobel Prize for his economic history of slavery. His latest book identifies the great awakenings in American religion as the source of the nation's major progressive economic and political changes.

Drawing on William G. McLoughlin's original work, Revivals, Awakenings and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977 (1978)--part of a series on American religious history edited by Martin E. Marty--Fogel examines ...

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