Second Great Awakening
Antebellum religious fervor
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival movement in the United States during the early nineteenth century, roughly 1790–1840.
Characterized by emotional camp meetings and mass conversions, it emphasized personal salvation and moral reform.
The movement fueled social causes including abolition and temperance, and spawned new denominations like the Latter-day Saints.
Movement rekindling religious passion
- camp meetingOutdoor religious assembly
- conversionAct of changing states
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
holiness · sanctification · altar call · sermon · preaching · itinerant · exhortation · testimony
Divinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
millennialism · perfectionism · original sin · atonement · postmillennialism · disestablishment · denominationalism · evangelicalism
Movement to end oppression
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- activismDirect effort for reform
equality · progressivism · philanthropy · advocacy · humanitarianism · utopianism · moral reform · benevolent societies
revivalism
Movement rekindling religious passion
- camp meetingOutdoor religious assembly
- conversionAct of changing states
- salvationDeliverance from harm
repentance · holiness · sanctification · altar call · sermon · preaching · itinerant · exhortation · testimony · Methodism
predestination
Divinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
free will · millennialism · perfectionism · original sin · atonement · postmillennialism · disestablishment · denominationalism · evangelicalism
abolitionism
Movement to end oppression
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
activism · equality · progressivism · philanthropy · advocacy · humanitarianism · utopianism · moral reform · benevolent societies · antislavery
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- Frontier Religioncamp meetings, revivalism, revivals, tent revivals, evangelicalism
- Religious MovementsMormons, Protestant Reformation, Mormonism, Counter-Reformation, Methodism
- revivalsrevivalism, resurgence, rejuvenation, revitalization, regeneration
- American Revivalsrevivals, camp meetings, Charles Finney, evangelicalism, conversion experience
- revivalismrevivals, revivalism, revivalist, revivalists, camp meeting
Second Great AwakeningAge of Reason
Eighteenth-century intellectual awakening
freethought · Thomas Paine · secular humanism · rationalism · atheism
Second Great Awakeningestablished church
Officially recognized national religion
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