Out of the Mouths of Babes: Girl Evangelists in the Flapper Era

by Lanette D Ruff, Thomas Arthur Robinson, Lanette D. Ruff

The 1920s saw one of the most striking revolutions in manners and morals to have marked North American society, affecting almost every aspect of life, from dress and drink to sex and salvation. Protestant Christianity was being torn apart by a heated controversy between traditionalists and the modernists, as they sought to determine how much their beliefs and practices should be altered by scientific study and more secular attitudes. Out of the controversy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199790876
• ISBN13: 9780199790876
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"