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Second Great Awakening
- 1. The Second Great Awakening 1780-1820
- 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
- 4. Revivalism and the Social Order
- 5. Humanity had progressed to spiritual emptiness
- 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
- 10. 1816 -> American Bible Society Founded
- 11. Arminianism
- 13. Francis Asbury and Harry Hosier
- 18. Charles Finney and Conversion Experiences
- 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
- 22. William Miller and the Millerites
- 26. Utopian Communities like the Shakers formed Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield MA
- 27. Robert Owen/ New Harmony
- 28. Shaker History
Editor's Notes
- 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.