History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – October 21, 2005  

RELIGION IN POST-CIVIL WAR AMERICA  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

1. The Civil war as a “watershed”
2. Charles Lyell
3. Charles Darwin
4. On the Origin of the Species (1859)
5. “Higher Criticism”
6. Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural Address” (1864)
7. North/South divisions among Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians
8. The “spirituality of the church”
9. National Baptist Convention
10. American Missionary Association
11. Church of God in Christ
12. Father Divine
13. “Christ Craze”
14. Charles Randolph Uncles
15. Julia Foote, Mary Small
16. National Urban League; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
17. Dwight Moody
18. YMCA
19. Sunday School Movement
20. Chatauqua Institution
21. Adult Bible Class Federation

 

QUESTIONS:  

1. American historians often argue that the USA after 1865 was fundamentally different from the way the USA had been before 1865.  How were these do Americas different?  And – how did this difference affect Religion in America?

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