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The religious revival that flourished in the early nineteenth century and changed American life found its most spectacular expression in Rochester, New York. The revival, in Rochester and elsewhere, made the United States the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and had an enormous influence on many Northern antebellum reform movements, including abolition and temperance. But although many historians have discussed its profound and wide-ranging effects, we know very little about its causes. A Shopkeeper's Millennium not only explores the interconnections between these vitally important economic, social, political, and religious changes but presents an evocative picture of a rapidly growing frontier city.
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Michelle Wright
reviewed A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 on October 24, 2014
A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
This is a heck of a book even if I can't necessarily recommend it to everyone. Not everyone is going to read about revivals in Rochester, NY, but it's really fascinating case study of the social roots of Great Awakening in a specific city. It's also a great use of structural functionalist perspective in history. Johnson isn't really that concerned with the religious views of Rochester's citizens. Rather, he looks at the function of religion in society and in class relations. His basic argument is that upper middle class citizens failed to reform or coercively control the behavior of the flood of lower class workers into Rochester during the market revolution. Instead, after Charles Finney's evangelical revival, the upper and middle classes used their economic power and sway over social mobility to enforce norms like temperance on the upwardly mobile lower classes. This book is concise, rich with data, and quite fascinating. It could easily be mistaken for a Marxist history, but Johnson's understanding of religion is far too complex to fit into a reductionist Marxist perspective.
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