The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement during the early nineteenth century. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1981.Stephen Meardon, "From Religious Revivals to Tariff Rancor: Preaching Free Trade and Protection during the Second American Party System,".Daniel Walker Howe, "The Evangelical Movement and Political Culture in the North During the Second Party System", The Journal of American History 77, no. His revivals led to many conversions, and the Great Awakening spread from North America back to the European continent.In 1740 Whitefield left Boston to begin a 24-day journey through New England. Lower classes were subservient and obedient to a class of spiritual and governing elite, made up of upper-class gentlemen and scholars. While the movement unified the colonies and boosted church growth, experts say it also caused division among those who supported it and those who rejected it.Historians named the Second Great Awakening in the context of the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1750s and of the,New religious movements emerged during the Second Great Awakening, such as.The Second Great Awakening occurred in several episodes and over different denominations; however, the revivals were very similar.In the early days of the nineteenth century, western,The denominations that encouraged the revivals were based on an interpretation of man's spiritual equality before God, which led them to recruit members and preachers from a wide range of classes and all races. He is the author of "The Everything American Presidents Book" and "Colonial Life: Government. The number of religious converts increased for some months afterward.The Great Awakening movement divided longstanding denominations such as the Congregational and Presbyterian churches and created an opening for new evangelical strength in Baptists and Methodists. Why did the Second Great Awakening happen? 4 (March 1991), p. 1218 and 1237.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,Ethnocultural politics in the United States,"Backcountry Religious Ways: The North British Field-Meeting Style","Religious Transformation and the Second Great Awakening",Introducing Black Harry Hoosier: The History Behind Indiana's Namesake,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Second_Great_Awakening&oldid=972704429,Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. This differed from the Calvinists' belief in predestination as outlined in the,The Methodist circuit riders and local Baptist preachers made enormous gains in increasing church membership.

Colonial America. Camp meeting, type of outdoor revival meeting that was held on the American frontier during the 19th century by various Protestant denominations. New York: Octagon Books, 1976, 139,Barbara Welter, "The Feminization of American Religion: 1800–1860," in.Barbara Leslie Epstein, The Politics of Domesticity.

In an effort to give sermons that would resonate with the congregation, ministers stressed Christ's humility and forgiveness, in what the historian Barbara Welter calls a "feminization" of Christianity.Revivals and perfectionist hopes of improving individuals and society continued to increase from 1840 to 1865 across all major denominations, especially in urban areas. Leaders such as Charles Finney saw women's public prayer as a crucial aspect in preparing a community for revival and improving their efficacy in conversion.The greatest change in women's roles stemmed from participation in newly formalized missionary and reform societies.