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English
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Apostles of Abstinence : Fasting and Masculinity during the Progressive Era
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American Quarterly
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December 2000
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52
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599-638
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In the early twentieth century, several radical health reformers were passionate about the benefits of fasting. Several touted fasting as a curative remedy for almost all ailments. In a brief introductory note, the author stated: 'by the mid-nineteenth century, fasting as a means of Christian repentance and humiliation had all but vanished among the majority of American Protestants, carried on mostly by upstarts like Mormons and Seventh-Day Adventists as well as Catholics and other liturgical traditionalists but increasingly rejected by the more 'respectable' mainstream.'