Smitten: Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening

by Rodney Hessinger

In Smitten, Rodney Hessinger examines how the Second Great Awakening disrupted gender norms across a breadth of denominations. The displacement and internal migration of Americans created ripe conditions for religious competition in the North. Hessinger argues that during this time of religious ferment, religious seekers could, in turn, play the missionary or the convert. The dynamic of religious rivalry inexorably led...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501766473
• ISBN13: 9781501766473
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"