![]() Middle class-Education-United States-History. Protestant churches-Education-United States-History. Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 2-5 (cloth : alk. The Chautauqua moment : Protestants, progressives, and the culture of modern liberalism / Andrew C. ![]() The Chautauqua Moment Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern LiberalismĬolumbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York, Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press All rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rieser, Andrew C. Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society. Julie Byrne, O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs. Amy DeRogatis, Moral Geography: Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier. Forsberg, Jr., Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture. Staub, Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America. Series Editor Randall Balmer is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American Religion and former chair of the Department of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. Titles examine such issues as how religion functions in particular urban contexts, how it interacts with popular culture, its role in social and political conflicts, and its impact on regional identity. The Religion and American Culture series explores the interaction between religion and culture throughout American history. The Chautauqua Moment brings color to a colorless demographic and spins a fascinating tale of modern liberalism's ambivalent but enduring cultural legacy. How could something that trumpeted democracy be so undemocratic in practice? The answer, Rieser argues, lies in the historical experience of the white, Protestant middle classes, who struggled to reconcile their parochial interests with radically new ideas about social progress and the state. Famous for its commitment to democracy, women's rights, and social justice, Chautauqua was nonetheless blind to issues of class and race. In this critical study, Andrew Rieser weaves the threads of Chautauqua into a single story and places it at the vital center of fin de si?cle cultural and political history. For five decades, Chautauqua dominated adult education and reached millions with its summer assemblies, reading clubs, and traveling circuits.Scholars have long struggled to make sense of Chautauqua's pervasive yet disorganized presence in American life. ![]() More than a college or a summer resort or a religious assembly, it was a composite of all of these - completely derivative yet brilliantly innovative. ![]() This book traces the rise and decline of what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "most American thing in America." The Chautauqua movement began in 1874 on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in western New York. ![]()
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