Sentimentalism
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Ann Douglas, Kim Riddlebarger, Michael Horton, Rod Rosenbladt
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Does the spiritual insight and advice that you hear in church sound a lot like the kind of platitudes you find on Hallmark cards? Is the main purpose of religion to provide emotional comfort, and spiritual uplift? On this program the hosts will trace these emphases back to the triumph of sentimentalism in the history of American Christianity.
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