The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists

Looks at the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism and the roles these spiritual revolutions had on the racial, social, and gender issues of the time.

List of contents

Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Events
The Second Great Awakening: An Overview
Transcendentalism as a New Religious Movement
Charles Finney and the Democratic Empowerment of Urban Revivals
Revivals and the Development of African-American Religion in America
The Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, and the Antislavery Impulse
Revivalism and Feminism
Biographies
Primary Documents
Glossary of Selected Terms
Annotated Bibliography
Index

About the author

Barry Hankins is Professor of History and Graduate Program Director in the History Department at Baylor University, USA. He holds a B.A. in religion, an M.A. in church-state studies from Baylor, and a Ph.D. in history from Kansas State University.

Summary

Beginning with overviews of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism, Hankins details the wider impact these spiritual revolutions had on antebellum America's social, political, racial, and gender matters.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Hankins
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780313318481
• ISBN: 978-0-313-31848-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 480 g
• Series: Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900; Greenwood Guides to Historic E; Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500-1900
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity