CAS HI 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: American Colonization Society, American Temperance Society, American Bible Society
10 Aug 2016
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Social and spiritual change: second great awakening. The religious life of the american people was remade more radically, after the. This transformation was essential to forming the american character/identity--just as essential as the american revolution. Universal salvation, idea of social equality, etc are products of this spiritual shift that extended into the 1820s. Before, people would ask: are you presbyterianism, calvinist, etc. This second revival was closely related to the massive migration to the west. The migration was the social basis of the revival. Before the migration, the church was the center of community life. During the migration, people were moving out. The frontier landscape made the church community irrelevant because it didn"t exist. Because it didn"t exist, religion eroded--without any physical manifestation. As they move away to the west, the strength of calvinism eroded because there was no church or ministers. Calvinism says only a few people are saved, but everyone else is bad.
