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THE SPIRIT OF REFORM: RELIGIOUS IDEAS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN AMERICA

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2015

JOSEPH KIP KOSEK
JOSEPH KIP KOSEK*
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Department of American Studies, George Washington University E-mail: [email protected]
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Intellectual historians have long appreciated the central role of religious ideas in the movements for social transformation that shaped the early United States. The American Revolution, the nation's original radical event, has for generations sparked investigations into the relationship between evangelical theology and political consciousness. The antebellum period has probably inspired more scholarship on the social significance of religion than any other era, most notably in sensitive and detailed accounts of the antislavery movement, but also in studies of prison reform, public schools, the treatment of people with disabilities, and much else.

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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , April 2017 , pp. 281 - 292
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