The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914 (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) - Tapa dura

"The Evangelist and the Impresario is first-class cultural history and quite innovative in its use of sources to complicate our understanding of the origins of twentieth-century cultural politics. The main thesis -- that the meaning of 'culture' was more popularly contested than elitists then or since have thought -- is provocative and clearly developed." -- James E. HoopesBabson College, author of Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic

"Creative and transformative... An exceptionally fruitful approach to the study of religion and leisure." -- Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Religious Studies Review