Bearing Witness against Sin - 9780226960852

The University of Chicago Press

Bearing Witness against SinThe Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement\nAuthor(s): Michael P. Young\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226960852, 978-0226960852\nSynopsis\nDuring the 1830s, the United States experienced a wave of movements for social change over temperance, the abolition of slavery, anti-vice activism, and a host of other moral reforms. While these efforts have mostly been considered independently of one another, Michael P. Young argues, for the first time in \""Bearing Witness against Sin\"" that together they represented a distinctive new style of mobilization - one that prefigured contemporary forms of social protest by underscoring the role of national religious structures. In this book, Young identifies a new strain of protest that challenged antebellum Americans to take personal responsibility for reforming social problems. At this point in history, national si.