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Watercolor representing the Second Great Awakening in 1839. The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history.Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century.
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements.
The First Great Awakening, sometimes Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion.
During the 1950s, the number of church members in America grew from 64.5 million to 114.5 million. By 1960, more than 60% of the nation belonged to a church. [134] Following the Welsh Methodist revival, the Azusa Street Revival in 1906 had begun the spread of Pentecostalism in North America.
Christian revival is defined as "a period of unusual blessing and activity in the life of the Christian Church" [1].Proponents view revivals as the restoration of the Church to a vital and fervent relationship with God after a period of moral decline, instigated by God, as opposed to an evangelistic campaign.
Early leaders of the Restoration Movement (clockwise, from top): Thomas Campbell, Barton W. Stone, Alexander Campbell, and Walter Scott. The Restoration Movement (also known as the American Restoration Movement or the Stone–Campbell Movement, and pejoratively as Campbellism) is a Christian movement that began on the United States frontier during the Second Great Awakening (1790–1840) of ...
A Gothic Revival church in rural Mississippi. And real it is. The congregation formed in 1820, just three years after Mississippi became a state. The church building, which is its third house of ...
Greek Revival: Dutch Reformed Church: St. Philip's Church, Charleston: 1835–50 1973 Charleston, SC: Late Georgian: Episcopal, Anglican Church in North America: KawaiahaŹ»o Church: 1836–42 1962 Honolulu, HI: Mediterranean Revival: United Church of Christ: Government Street Presbyterian Church: 1836–37 1992 Mobile, AL