Hankins details how revivalist religion and the spread of democratic ideals reinforced one another in post-colonial America.
Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chronology of Events The Second Great Awakening: An Overview Transcendentalism as a New Religious Movement Charles Finney and the Democratic Empowerment of Urban Revivals Revivals and the Development of African-American Religion in America The Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, and the Antislavery Impulse Revivalism and Feminism Biographies Primary Documents Glossary of Selected Terms Annotated Bibliography Index
BARRY HANKINS is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Baylor University, Waco. He is the author or co-editor of New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America (2002), Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture (2002), Welfare Reform and Faith-Based Organizations (1999), and God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism (1996).
?[P]rovides a general overview of the "religious fever" that swept
through the United States in the years prior to the Civil War. In a
clear style, Barry Hankins describes the theological background and
tenets of the Second Great Awakening, the major events associated
with the revivals, and the leading actors whose efforts brought
religious intensity to the country....[a] handy introduction to the
subjects with which it deals.?-The Historian
?The purpose of the Greenwood Guides is to introduce undergraduates
and advances high school students to important and complex
historical topics. This book briefly summarizes the events, ideas
and influence of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism,
as well as the major schools in the historiography. While the
history and historiography is simplified, the work succeeds in its
purpose to summarize modern scholarship for beginning student. In
addition to the main text, the book also offers biographies, an
annotated bibliography, primary source readings, a glossary and an
index, making it an excellent research tool for the undergraduate.
Recommended for secondary school and university
libraries.?-Religious Studies Review
"ÝP¨rovides a general overview of the "religious fever" that swept
through the United States in the years prior to the Civil War. In a
clear style, Barry Hankins describes the theological background and
tenets of the Second Great Awakening, the major events associated
with the revivals, and the leading actors whose efforts brought
religious intensity to the country....Ýa¨ handy introduction to the
subjects with which it deals."-The Historian
"[P]rovides a general overview of the "religious fever" that swept
through the United States in the years prior to the Civil War. In a
clear style, Barry Hankins describes the theological background and
tenets of the Second Great Awakening, the major events associated
with the revivals, and the leading actors whose efforts brought
religious intensity to the country....[a] handy introduction to the
subjects with which it deals."-The Historian
"The purpose of the Greenwood Guides is to introduce undergraduates
and advances high school students to important and complex
historical topics. This book briefly summarizes the events, ideas
and influence of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism,
as well as the major schools in the historiography. While the
history and historiography is simplified, the work succeeds in its
purpose to summarize modern scholarship for beginning student. In
addition to the main text, the book also offers biographies, an
annotated bibliography, primary source readings, a glossary and an
index, making it an excellent research tool for the undergraduate.
Recommended for secondary school and university
libraries."-Religious Studies Review
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