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The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists
Barry Hankins
ISBN: 0-313-31848-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31848-1
232 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/2004
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: 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. Twenty-four concise and informative biographical sketches follow, providing glimpses into the lives of key figures from the period, such as Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott, feminist pioneer Susan B. Anthony, clergyman Lyman Beecher, tireless evangelizer Peter Cartwright, southern abolitionists and women's rights activists Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and the messianic slave preacher and revolt leader Nat Turner. A dozen annotated primary documents give the reader a feel for the period in the language of the time; poetry, essays, lectures, letters; and other sources are used. A glossary helps readers with unfamiliar terms and ideas. A bibliography and index are also included.
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
About the Author: BARRY HANKINS is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Baylor University, Waco. He is the author or co-editor of New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America (2002), Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture (2002), Welfare Reform and Faith-Based Organizations (1999), and God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism (1996).
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