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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this feels like a massive influence on a large chunk of americas golden age and i dont see people discussing it often
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my understanding is that many cultural practices in america stem from that age. which ultimately led to all kinds of weird shit. eg the mania for fighting the scourge of masturbation led to Graham crackers and mass male circumcision, allegedly
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also very curious about the intersection of that religious upheaval with progressivism. on some things (temperance) they seem deeply aligned, on others potentially at odds (progressives were the OG eugenicists, the religious against abortion) wonder if the latter caused a split
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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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What about the periods in between, are they Asleepenings or what?
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i believe so major periods would be 1920s-1950s, 1970s through 2000s maybe?
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That last Asleepening was some pretty chill times, too bad it's over now. Is America doomed to repeat this silly loop forever? Is that what America is all about?
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