What is the significant of the Second Great Awakening before, during, and after the Civil War?
it was a process of reorientation, reassertion of centralized religious authority, and established churches tried to modernize and co-opt Evangalism Wikipedia also has some useful sources. The Second Great Awakening and Rise of Evangelicalism Transformations in American economics, politics and intellectual culture found their parallel in a transformation of American religion in the decades following independence, as the United States underwent a widespread flowering of religious sentiment and unprecedented expansion of church membership known as the Second Great Awakening. Definitions of the term and assessments of the causes, contours, and effects of the Awakening are in dispute, but a number of basic features are generally agreed upon. The Awakening lasted some 50 years, from the 1790s to the 1840s, and spanned the entire United States. The religious revitalization that the Awakening represented manifested itself in different ways according to the local population and church establis
it was a process of reorientation, reassertion of centralized religious authority, and established churches tried to modernize and co-opt Evangalism Wikipedia also has some useful sources. The Second Great Awakening and Rise of Evangelicalism Transformations in American economics, politics and intellectual culture found their parallel in a transformation of American religion in the decades following independence, as the United States underwent a widespread flowering of religious sentiment and unprecedented expansion of church membership known as the Second Great Awakening. Definitions of the term and assessments of the causes, contours, and effects of the Awakening are in dispute, but a number of basic features are generally agreed upon. The Awakening lasted some 50 years, from the 1790s to the 1840s, and spanned the entire United States. The religious revitalization that the Awakening represented manifested itself in different ways according to the local population and church establis
