Out With the Old‚ In With the New There were multiple factors that influenced the Great Awakening in the early seventeen hundreds. From 1730 to 1740‚ rebellion spread throughout the colonies causing a major religious warfare between churches. In Contending Voice‚ Hollitz shows us the perspective of two famous preachers that gave the Great Awakening a stir of madness. The “wild‚” “indecent‚” and work of “mad men” revolutionized the way colonist viewed how religion could be so intense frequently
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between the ‘’democratic spirit’’ of the American culture in the nineteenth century and the appeal of insurgent religious groups of the Second great awakening‚ according to Nathan Hatch’s essay? What role did the American Revolution play in growing appeal to these groups during the awakening‚ according to the essay? Nathan Hatch compares the Second Great Awakening to the Jacksonian era. He states that the men trying to persuade other people to join their religion was like tyrants trying to get people
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The first Great Awakening was a religious movement among the colonies in the 1730’s and the 1740’s. The movement was needed because of the substantial decrease in the amount of members in the church. The Puritans had "lost its grip" on society. When the New Massachusetts law of 1691 allowed colonial Americans to worship freely and the right to vote‚ colonist were overwhelmed that they discarded what might be in store for them in the future. The Puritans lost faith developing a taste for material
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As the most profound and significant intellectual movement since the Renaissance in Europe‚ the Enlightenment in eighteenth century was never a coincidence‚ instead it was set in complicated economical‚ scientific and social context. With the growing power of emergent capitalist industrialism‚ the new middle class who had known poverty and hardship‚ and most of whom had obtained their present social statue through hard work‚ put high value on the virtues of self-discipline‚ thrift and hard work.
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When the Great Awakening happened that was the cause for the rebuilding of a new city. Even the nation became unified due to the movement that was used to bring lost souls to god. A man named George Whitefield contributed to the unity‚ his preachings brought a lot of
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The Second Great Awakening was a time period in the early 19th century where people became extremely religious. It reflected cultural romanticism described by enthusiasm‚ emotion‚ and an appeal to religion. Religion had a major role through out this time period. There were huge religious gatherings and revivals that attracted millions of people and it caused many different social changes. The Second Great Awakening created many different movements that involved religion‚ abolitionists‚ and women’s
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an interesting topic and one that can be explored at great depths. Revivals of the past‚ if looked at through the right lens‚ can awaken hope and desire for God to move again‚ even in the darkest times. Revivals show us that God is still very much active and interested in His people. The Father desires that we would know Him as a real Person and who loves to make Himself known through His Son Jesus. I wrote my paper on the First Great Awakening mainly because I am from New England and I have a passion
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12/16/13 The Second Great Awakening The Second Great Awakening was a religious and social reform movement from 1820-1860. Inspired by religious optimism‚ economic progress and democratic spirit people thought they could better their personal lives and society as a whole. Many religious‚ women’s rights and antislavery movements occurred as a result of the Second Great Awakening. Religious reform during the Great Awakening was very important and sparked a lot of other movements. The new reformers
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The Second Great Awakening was a revival movement that had occurred in the 1730s with the goal of creating a Protestant creed that would maintain the idea of Christian community in a period of rapid individualism and competition. As our book mentions‚ the Second Great Awakening was “one of the most momentous episodes in the history of American religious. This tidal wave of spiritual fervor left in its wake countless converted souls‚ many shattered and reorganized church‚ and numerous new sects. It
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Time and time again‚ people have turned to religion for answers during times of great change‚ such as the burgeoning industrialization of antebellum America in the 1800’s. The Second Great Awakening swept through America as a reaction against the spread of rationalism and the weakening clutch of churches over their followers. With its touch‚ America grew invigorated over religious beliefs such as equality and temperance. Reform movements sprung and spread like wildfire‚ affecting nearly every apspect
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