WGS 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: First Great Awakening, Shakers, Golden Plates

• School: CMU
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 328
• Professor: Tara Mcarthy

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*exam 1: settlement of the chesapeake-second great awakening. Mormon church was founded in new york in the 1840s(?) Charles grandison finney: really good at converting people and really well known, finney"s new measures: Public praying of women in mixed-sex audiences. Daily services over a series of days. Use of colloquial language by the preacher (speaking in language that everybody can understand) The (cid:862)a(cid:374)(cid:454)ious (cid:271)e(cid:374)(cid:272)h(cid:863) (usually the front bench with people who are nervous about how their souls were going to hell, etc. ) Immediate church membership for converts: was originally was studying to be a lawyer, had a conversion experience that made him give up law and want to become a minister. 1 woman converted-only 15% followed a male relative into the church: wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:449)as i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t i(cid:374) (cid:271)ri(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) other converts ((cid:373)ajorit(cid:455) of (cid:373)ale (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)erts do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)e i(cid:374) u(cid:374)til after the women, women were the majority of converts! Shakers: not an american movement but they did end up in the.