The Chicago Revival, 1876: Society and Revivalism in a Nineteenth-Century City

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