27 September 2008

Second Great Awakening and the forging of Protestant consensus

«The Second Great Awakening set the tone for evangelical Protestantism's hegemony that would last until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when large numbers of Roman Catholic and Jewish immigrants began to challenge the Protestant consensus the Awakening forged.»

The Second Great Awakening
and the Transcendentalists, p 48
Barry Hankins

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