What it means to be modern: a messy history of mass-media revivals in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1875-1920

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dc.contributor.authorNoddings, Timothy R.
dc.contributor.supervisorCleves, Rachel Hope
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-12T20:56:26Z
dc.date.available2014-06-08T11:22:06Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-08-12
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Historyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractAmerican historians tend to oppose “modernity” and “modern religion” to pre-modern and “traditional” faith, a binary that has privileged certain religious forms and displays of sacredness over others. This thesis challenges the structuring dichotomy of modernity by arguing that Protestant evangelical revivals were sites on which “modernity” was made, defined, contested, and remade at the end of the nineteenth century. Examining the major revivals of Dwight Moody and Billy Sunday, among others, it rejects grand narratives and insists on understanding revival campaigns as existing in a braided relationship with the “secular” public sphere: one player in a symbolic marketplace where various partisans attempted to demonstrate that they were uniquely “modern.” This “modernity” was constructed through multiple categories of gender, age, class, ethnicity, and race, linking claims of “modernity” to common-sense masculinity, idealized family roles, and Anglo-Saxon identity as site upon which “Americanness” was made.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0320en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0337en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0330en_US
dc.description.proquestemailbarak65@hotmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4733
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectmodernityen_US
dc.subjectreligionen_US
dc.subjectfundamentalismen_US
dc.subjectscienceen_US
dc.subjectevangelicalismen_US
dc.subjectconsumeriismen_US
dc.subjectmediaen_US
dc.subjectadvertisingen_US
dc.subjectrevivalsen_US
dc.titleWhat it means to be modern: a messy history of mass-media revivals in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1875-1920en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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