""Under the Big Top""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Reaching the Masses:Â Big Tent Revivalism and the Populist Impulse""; ""2 Old-Time Religion:Â Big Tent Revivalism and the Crisis of Late Victorian Culture""; ""3 Between Two Protestant Ethics:Â Big Tent Revivalism and Muscular Christianity""; ""4 The Problem of Pain:Â Big Tent Revivalism and the Search for Therapeutic Well-Being""; ""5 Vim and Vice:Â Big Tent Revivalism and Urban America""
""6 Make �Em Laugh, Make �Em Cry, Make �Em Think: Big Tent Revivalism and Entertainment Culture""""Conclusion: Evangelicalism and Consumer Culture""; ""Notes""
Summary
McMullen challenges the pervasive use of the Fundamentalist-Modernist dichotomy for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century American Protestantism. He attempts to do this by examining big tent revivalism in light of the transition from a Victorian to a consumer culture. The book argues that rather than mere dour opposition, big tent revivalists participated in the shift away from Victorianism and helped in the construction of a new consumer culture in the United States between the 1880s and the 1920s
