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Examines Dwight L. Moody's and Ira D. Sankey's revival in Chicago in 1876. A deceptively modest-looking study, this work offers an important and revealing glimpse of the development of the American urban revival. - CHRISTIAN CENTURY ...goes beyond James F. Findlay's more cursory coverage...to recover a much-neglected aspect of Chicago's religious history...case studies add a specificity to Robertson's argument...substantiates other scholars' judgements...- JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY

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...goes beyond James F. Findlay's more cursory coverage...to recover a much-neglected aspect of Chicago's religious history...case studies add a specificity to Robertson's argument...substantiates other scholars' judgments... -- Philip Dean Jordan Journal of American History ...well-written...Recommended...Especially important for regional collections. -- Betty A. DeBerg Religious Studies Review ...a model of the fundamental kind of research with which all historical analysis should begin...Besides this immersion in the primary sources, Robertson also mastered the secondary literature...a masterful study, one which ought to inform anyone who studies or works for revival. Fides Et Historia A deceptively modest-looking study, this work offers an important and revealing glimpse of the development of the American urban revival. The Christian Century

...goes beyond James F. Findlay's more cursory coverage...to recover a much-neglected aspect of Chicago's religious history...case studies add a specificity to Robertson's argument...substantiates other scholars' judgments...--Philip Dean Jordan Journal Of American History

...goes beyond James F. Findlay's more cursory coverage...to recover a much-neglected aspect of Chicago's religious history...case studies add a specificity to Robertson's argument...substantiates other scholars' judgments... -- Philip Dean Jordan Journal of American History ...well-written...Recommended...Especially important for regional collections. -- Betty A. DeBerg Religious Studies Review ...a model of the fundamental kind of research with which all historical analysis should begin...Besides this immersion in the primary sources, Robertson also mastered the secondary literature...a masterful study, one which ought to inform anyone who studies or works for revival. FIDES ET HISTORIA A deceptively modest-looking study, this work offers an important and revealing glimpse of the development of the American urban revival. The Christian Century

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Darrel M. Robertson (M.Div., Bethel Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Iowa) is pastor of the Presbyterian-Congregational UCC Church of Ashland, WI and Associate Professor of History at Northlnd College.

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