Holy Fairs Oded Degany Phillips asks what we learn

Phillips asks what we learn and whom we can see when we look at premodern education from this humbler

The Cost of Cool emphasizes the centrality of vision: for growth (as Austin's population doubles every twenty years)

until the defects in their representational thinking are overcome and they arrive at an endpoint of visual realism

As he sets out to prove them wrong

the scrappy columnist who never forgot how Fanny rescued him from the school bullies

Holy Fairs Oded Degany Phillips asks what we learnWinner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History, Holy Fairs traces the roots of American camp meeting revivalism to the communion festivals of early modern Scotland. This new paperback edition of Leigh Eric Schmidt's seminal work features updated material, a dozen illustrations, and a new preface by the author.