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- Title
EVANGELICAL MALE FRIENDSHIPS IN AMERICA'S FIRST AGE OF REFORM.
- Authors
Warner, Jessica
- Abstract
The article examines friendships between evangelical Christian men in the United States in the 19th century, in order to balance historiography suggesting that male romantic friendships were common at the time. In contrast to other studies, which tend to be of Unitarian men, the article finds that evangelicals gave higher priority to their relationship with God than with friends and family, resulting in a greater degree of emotional reserve in their friendships. The men under study were all members of the American Temperance Society in Massachusetts.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MALE friendship; SAME-sex relationships; SOCIOLOGY of friendship; EVANGELICALISM; ROMANTIC friendship; NINETEENTH century; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Journal of Social History, 2010, Vol 43, Issue 3, p681
- ISSN
0022-4529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jsh.0.0289