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Title: Protestant Clergy and Public Issues, 1812 to 1848 (Perspectives in American History Ser: No 52) by John R. Bodo ISBN: 0-87991-854-3 Publisher: Porcupine Pr Pub. Date: June, 1980 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00

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Summary: Reformers as Social Conservatives
Comment: Misnamed, this book is really about a select group of northern Calvinist clergy. Bodo contends that these "theocrats" sought to order antebellum society according to their own pattern through the work of voluntary societies. He finds that these men supported the status quo through moral reforms which might have had social implications but were primarily about personal behavior. Almost hidden in his work, however, are some important insights about the response of the religious imagination to social change. While fear is not absent in the motivation of the reformers, Bodo emphasizes the role of ideas. In the end, he finds some good to say about these apparent conservatives. Partly by circumstance, his work came to be associated with C. S. Griffin's social control thesis in the historiography of antebellum reform, an association that fails to do justice to Bodo's own insights. I recommend this book for the serious student of antebellum religion and reform. Other reader's might prefer the more recent Cosmos Crumbling by Robert Abzug.