The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists

Subjects:

• History » American History -- Nineteenth Century
• Religious Studies » Religious Studies (General)

Reviews:

• [P]rovides a general overview of the "religious fever" that swept through the United States in the years prior to the Civil War. In a clear style, Barry Hankins describes the theological background and tenets of the Second Great Awakening, the major events associated with the revivals, and the leading actors whose efforts brought religious intensity to the country....[a] handy introduction to the subjects with which it deals.
  —The Historian Winter 2005
• The purpose of the Greenwood Guides is to introduce undergraduates and advances high school students to important and complex historical topics. This book briefly summarizes the events, ideas and influence of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism, as well as the major schools in the historiography. While the history and historiography is simplified, the work succeeds in its purpose to summarize modern scholarship for beginning student. In addition to the main text, the book also offers biographies, an annotated bibliography, primary source readings, a glossary and an index, making it an excellent research tool for the undergraduate. Recommended for secondary school and university libraries.
  —Religious Studies Review October 2004

Table 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

PDF Catalogs:

Sale Catalog 2008.pdf