Second Great Awakening

causes of religious reform

1. growing emphasis on democracy and the individual that influenced the arts also influenced religion. worshippers were attracted to services that were more participatory and less formal

2. rational approach to religion favored by Deists and Unitarians prompted more emotional expressions of beliefs in worship services

3. the market revolution and increased capitalism and industrialization led more people to believe that society was moving towards more greed and sin

camp meetings

meetings in which Baptist or methodist circuit preachers such as Peter Cartwright would travel from one location to another to give dramatic sermons to audiences

two new denominations that arose during the time

Millennialism and the Church of Latter Day Saints

Timothy Dwight

led campus revivals and attacked the newly emerging liberalism