The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America

Author/Contributor(s):	Bauer, Susan Wise
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Date:	09/07/2008
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

In this fascinating and important history of public confession in modern America, Bauer explains why and how a type of confession that first arose among 19th-century evangelicals has today become the required form for any successful public admission of wrongdoing.