The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500-1900)

by Barry Hankins

Overview

Beginning with overviews of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism, Hankins details the wider impact these spiritual revolutions had on antebellum America's social, political, racial, and gender matters. Twenty-four concise and informative biographical sketches follow, providing glimpses into the lives of key figures from the period, such as Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott, feminist pioneer Susan B. Anthony, clergyman Lyman Beecher, tireless evangelizer Peter Cartwright, southern abolitionists and women's rights activists Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and the messianic slave preacher and revolt leader Nat Turner. A dozen annotated primary documents give the reader a feel for the period in the language of the time; poetry, essays, lectures, letters; and other sources are used. A glossary helps readers with unfamiliar terms and ideas. A bibliography and index are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313318481
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/30/2004
Series:	Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900 Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

BARRY HANKINS is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Baylor University, Waco. He is the author or co-editor of New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America (2002), Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture (2002), Welfare Reform and Faith-Based Organizations (1999), and God's Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism (1996).

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Events
The Second Great Awakening: An Overview
Transcendentalism as a New Religious Movement
Charles Finney and the Democratic Empowerment of Urban Revivals
Revivals and the Development of African-American Religion in America
The Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, and the Antislavery Impulse
Revivalism and Feminism
Biographies
Primary Documents
Glossary of Selected Terms
Annotated Bibliography
Index