2. In France, I had
almost always seen
the spirit of religion
and the spirit of
freedom pursuing
courses diametrically
opposed to each
other; but in America,
I found that they were
intimately united, and
that they reigned in
common over the
same country…
Religion was the
foremost of the
political institutions of
the United States.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1832
9. The Rise of African
American Churches
• Revivalism also spread
to the African
American community
• The Second Great
Awakening has been
called the "central and
defining event in the
development of Afro-
Christianity“
• During these revivals Baptists and Methodists converted large
numbers of blacks
21. Religious Groups Beliefs
Unitarians
Believe Jesus was a great teacher not
the Son of God
God is a unity, not a trinity
Universalists
Universal salvation
Reject the idea of hell
Mormons
Followers of Joseph Smith
Believe God is coming and they
Need to build a kingdom on Earth
to receive him
Shakers
Believe in communal life
Because they did not marry or
Have children, their church could
Grow only through converts
New denominational groups,
the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of renewed personal salvation experienced in revival meetings. Major leaders included Charles Grandison Finney, Lyman Beecher, Barton Stone, Peter Cartwright, Asahel Nettleton, and James Finley. It also encouraged an eager evangelical attitude that later reappeared in American life in causes dealing with prison reform, temperance, women's suffrage, and the crusade to abolish slavery.
in a Christian context generally refers to a specific period of spiritual renewal in the life of the Church. While elements such as mass conversions and perceived beneficial effects on the moral climate of a given
intentional communities created to perfect American society had become institutionalized in American thought by the 1840s. Various groups, struggling under the pressures of urbanization and industrialization, challenged the traditional norms and social conservatism of American society. Their desire to create a perfect world often lay in sharp contradiction to the world in which they lived, one in which capitalism, the Industrial Revolution, immigration, and the tension between the individual and the community challenged older forms of living.
A Welsh socialist and social reformer. He is considered the father of the cooperative movement. He experimented through the New Harmony community, a utopian settlement in Indiana lasting from 1825 to 1827. It had 1,000 settlers, but a lack of authority caused it to break up.