The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism, 1874-1920

Andrew Chamberlin Rieser

December, 2003
Cloth, 416 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12642-7
$45.00 / £26.50

Introduction: Chautauqua's Liberal Creed

An American Forum: Methodist Camp Meetings and the Rise of Social Christianity

Canopy of Cultures: Democracy Under the Big Tent of Prosperity

The Never-Ending Vacation: Boosters, Tourists, and the Fantasyscape of Chautauqua

Inventing the White Public: Webs of Region, Race, and Nationalism in the Chautauqua Movement

From Parlor to Politics: Chautauqua and the Institutionalization of Middle-Class Womanhood

Useful Knowledge and Its Critics: The Messiness of Popular Education in the 1890s

Success Through Failure: Chautauqua in the Progressive Era

Related Subjects

• American Religion

Series

• Religion and American Culture

About the Author

Andrew C. Rieser is a past fellow of the Pew Program in religion and American history at Yale University and has taught at several universities in New York and the Midwest.

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