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Other than the pervy Baptist Reverend I have already forgotten about the other Reverend Rake inspirations this chapter features…so there’s probably a better way to frame and delineate these real personalities and how they helped create this trope in mainstream culture in the 1820’s

Me reading the Ann Lee in the Shaker religion section “ This is the character Amanda Seyfried is playing next year in that Testament of Ann Lee movie???”

Also I wish there was more background about Shakers supposedly beating their kids and the forced labor because every secondary text provided is written by the 1830’s equivalent of Alex Jones or Laura Ingraham so I don’t know how literal the actions are

I appreciate why the Mormon and Catholic controversies are being brought forward first based on the authors supposition that both were seen as engaging in some degree to the Enthusiastic Religion movement in the 1820-1840s while still being seen as outliers by larger Protestant denominations and mainstream culture. I do still wish this was a bit more chronological to help keep norms and precedents organized

This will be a challenging read as it is written very much like an academic paper.