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Although Billy Sunday's early twentieth-century revival campaigns reshaped the religious and political landscapes of Progressive-Era America, we know little about the motivations of Sunday's followers. Using hundreds of letters and testimonials, this article examines the emotional experiences of these followers and identifies emotional experience itself as a key method by which historical figures translate broad cultural trends into concrete social action.
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Transformation in the Tabernacle shows that Billy Sunday's followers were volitional agents whose participation in Sunday revivals gave them meaning and purpose they felt they lacked. It also outlines how emotional experience can help drive historical trends.
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This page is a summary of: TRANSFORMATION IN THE TABERNACLE: BILLY SUNDAY'S CONVERTS AND EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, July 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1537781415000080.
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