The Politics of Benevolence: Revival Religion and American Voting Behavior (Modern Sociology)

This book examines the phenomenal wave of revivals which swept the early nineteenth century, and shows the impact they had on several ideological movements. This study asks whether religious beliefs genuinely influence people's political positions or whether, instead, what appear to be religious motivations for political behavior are merely an outgrowth of their social positions. This book establihes the influence of religious beliefs and the revivalist movement on the political behavior of the past century.John L. Hammond is the author of 'The Politics of Benevolence: Revival Religion and American Voting Behavior (Modern Sociology)', published 1979 under ISBN 9780893910136 and ISBN 0893910139.