History Department      

Religion in America:

From Native Religions to the Civil War  

 

The CIVIL WAR & America’s “Re-birth”  

 

THE “SECOND” GREAT AWAKENING

  • Denominationalism (host of new forms of religious expression)
  • The “Benevolent Empire” & Reform (including Abolitionism)
  • THE WEST
  • Religious Experiments (Mormonism, 7th Day Adventists)
  • 1858 Revival

 

 

 

The American Revolution

  • American “Civil Religion”
  • Disestablishment

 

 

First Great Awakening  

  • Crisis of Calvinism
  • Rise of Wesleyanism
  • Old Lights v. New Lights

 

 

PURITANISM

 

 

 

 

 

Church of England

 

 

Catholics

 

Other “dissenters” (Baptists, Quakers)

 

Germans Pietists

 

Dutch Reformed

Spanish & French Catholics Missionaries

 

Native American Traditions  

 

       

 

 

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