The Spirit of Their Fathers Moves Within Them”
The Radical Conservatism of the Virginia Populists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gillis J Harp (Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-69 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-2022-007 |
| OpenAlex | W4225383725 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Evangelical Protestantism helped frame the thinking of many Populist Party members in Virginia, providing them with a prophetic voice that criticized the political and economic status quo, while also furnishing a traditional language that privileged rural custom and community. Rowland Berthoff once characterized American Populism as a “mixture of static peasant-Puritan-republican nostalgia and dynamic secular-millennial progressivism.” This article contends that Virginia Populists may best exemplify that peculiar hybrid
Conservatism · Cynicism · Globalism · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Progressivism · Protestantism · Sociology · Status quo · American Political and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies
Democratic promise
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
The Populist Vision
Religion and the Social Order
Traditionalist Dissent
The Populist Response to Industrial America
Righteous Indignation
Peasants and Artisans, Puritans and Republicans
The Godly Insurrection in Limestone County
Religious Rhetoric in American Populism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |