Download or read book Standing Against the Whirlwind written by Diana Butler Bass and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result is a fascinating picture of the struggle and ultimate failure of the movement - a loss, Butler shows, not to the ritualist opponents against whom they struggled for the better part of the century, but to the liberal forces of the secularized twentieth century.