are there any good histories of the second great awakening in america the baptists and methodists were clearly running amok from what i can tell of the stories of that time. for like a solid 50 years. i desire to understand this better
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this feels like a massive influence on a large chunk of americas golden age and i dont see people discussing it often
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my understanding is that many cultural practices in america stem from that age. which ultimately led to all kinds of weird shit. eg the mania for fighting the scourge of masturbation led to Graham crackers and mass male circumcision, allegedly
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also very curious about the intersection of that religious upheaval with progressivism. on some things (temperance) they seem deeply aligned, on others potentially at odds (progressives were the OG eugenicists, the religious against abortion) wonder if the latter caused a split
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jonah goldbergs book i assume was extremely stupid. illiberal reformers however is extremely enlightening about an ideological age thats mostly buriedhttps://smile.amazon.com/Illiberal-Reformers-Eugenics-Economics-Progressive/dp/0691175861/ …
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Oh, it really was. For one thing, he assumes that women - especially Black women - are too stupid to know what birth control does. And he's very disparaging of women having sex for pleasure rather than procreation. (He has 3 kids, BTW.)
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i imagine he could have written a much better book if he werent fixated on being tiresome because that era was genuinely fucked up and no one talks about it
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