are there any good histories of the second great awakening in america the baptists and methodists were clearly running amok from what i can tell of the stories of that time. for like a solid 50 years. i desire to understand this better
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jonah goldbergs book i assume was extremely stupid. illiberal reformers however is extremely enlightening about an ideological age thats mostly buriedhttps://smile.amazon.com/Illiberal-Reformers-Eugenics-Economics-Progressive/dp/0691175861/ …
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yeah the later 19C and pre-atomic 20C is what's on my mind but worth noting the abolitionists were heeeeeavily religiously motivated contrast lincoln's biblically-inflected language with the hazy deism of founder rhetoric sometime btwhttps://twitter.com/ClwnPrncCharlie/status/1391309404016889857 …
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hmmm some taxonomy has this as the Third Great Awakening rather than the Second. ok surehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Great_Awakening …
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someone doing a religious history of America might contribute by tracking Great Awakenings over time. here we have One, Two, and Three; maybe we peg the 60s as a Fourth and the current Awokening as a Fifth
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so one could say identify commonalities in their rises, reigns, falls; what secular ages separate Awakenings; and so on implications for foreign policy are apparent if one reads the history of the role of missionaries in US diplomacy
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america just be like this. its the national character. read our actual national anthem if you doubt its true.pic.twitter.com/7NZf42ggGJ
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we are fanatics and we will cut you if you happen to go against whatever weve decided to stand for at any given moment and can make a dollar or two in the processhttps://twitter.com/pictorangelicvs/status/1391314635391868930 …
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