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Chapter 16. Chapter 16: The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790-1860) I.
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Chapter 16: The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790-1860)
I. Reviving Religion
a. Church attendance were regular in 1850(3/4 pop)
b. Many relied on Deism (reason rather revelation); rejected original sin, denied Christ's divinity but believed in supreme being that created universe
c. Puritans of the past now-Unitarian faith(New Eng.)
-god existed in only 1 person not in orthodox trinity; stressed goodness of human nature
-belief n free will & salvation through good work; pictured God as loving father
-appealed to intellectuals w/ rationalism & optimism
d. liberalism in relig started in 1800
-tidal wave of spiritual fervor that result prison, church reform, temperance cause, women's movement, abolish slavery
-spread to mass through huge "camp meetings"
-E went to W to Christianize Indians
-Methodists & Baptist stressed personal conversion, demo in church affairs, emotionalism
-Peter Cartwright-best known of "circuit riders"
-Charles Grandison Finney were greatest of revival preachers
-led massive revivals in Rochester & New York
II. Denominational Diversity
a. revival furthered fragmentation of religious faith
-New York w/ Puritans preaching "hellfire" known as "Burned-out District"
-Millerites(Adventists)-Christ return to earth on Oct 22,1844 (didn't come)
b. widen lines bet. classes & region(like 1st)
-conservatives, propertied-Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Congregationalists, Unitarians
-less learned of S & E-Methodists, Baptists
c. Religious further split w/ issue on slavery (Methodist, Presbyterians split)
III. A Desert Zion in Utah
a. Joseph Smith(1830) came up(NY) w. Mormon & Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
-antagonism toward Mormons for polygamy, drilling militia, voting as a unit
-Smith died but succeeded by Brigham Young who led followers to...
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