Religion in the United States

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Religion in the United States

• Standard 11.3

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The Great Awakenings

• First 1730- 1755
• Second 1790-1840
• Third 1850-1900
• Fourth 1960-1961

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First Great Awakening 1730 -1755

• Protestant
• Demoninations
• Presbyterians
• Methodists
• Baptists- Black churches

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People

• George Whitfield- Popular preacher who travelled
  and spoke to crowds
• Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an
  Angry God
• James Madison

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terms

• Protestant
• Evangelical
• Puritanism
• Dogma
• Egalitarianism
• Anglican Church
• Pulpit

• Alter
• Enlightenment
• conregationist

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• claiming liberty of conscience to be an
  inalienable right of every rational
  creature.7 Whitefields supporters in
  Philadelphia, including Franklin,
• a large, new hall, thatcould provide a pulpit
  to anyone of any belief.8

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• Puritanism and the epidemic of evangelism of
  the mid-eighteenth century, had created
  challenges to the traditional notions of social
  stratification by preaching that the Bible
  taught all men are equal, that the true value of
  a man lies in his moral behavior, not his class,
  and that all men can be saved.

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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican

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Methodist

• George Whitefield (was an Anglican minister who
  helped spread the Great Awakening in Great
  Britain and, especially, in the British North
  American colonies. His ministry had tremendous
  impact on American ideology.

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• Jonathan Edwards was a preacher, to Native
  Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be
  America's most important and original
  philosophical theologian,"3 and one of
  America's greatest intellectuals.4

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Jonathan Edwards
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Second great awakening 1790-1840

• The Second Great Awakening  was a period of great
  religious revival that extended into the pre
  Civil War period of the United States, with
  widespread Christian evangelism and conversions.

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• Evangelical participation in social causes was
  fostered that changed American life in areas such
  as prison reform, abolitionism, and temperance.

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Mormon

• Mormon is a term used to describe the followers
  of the Latter Day Saint movement. However, the
  term is nevertheless used to refer to many other
  sects that recognize Brigham Young as a prophet,
  including Mormon fundamentalists. The term
  originated from the Book of Mormon, first
  published in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.

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1850-1900

• The Third Great Awakening was a period of
  religious activism in American history. It
  affected Protestants and had a strong sense of
  social activism. It gathered strength from The
  Social Gospel Movement gained its force from the
  Awakening, as did the worldwide missionary
  movement.

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Fourth Great Awakening 1960s-1970s

• The Fourth Great Awakening was a Christian
  religious awakening that some scholars most
  notably, economic historian Robert Fogel say
  took place in the United States in the late 1960s
  and early 1970s.

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What is all this about?

• CST Question
• What is the Establishment Clause?
• The seperation of church and state

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Establishment Clause

• 1 First amendment
• "Congress shall make no law respecting an
  establishment of religion". Together with the
  Free Exercise Clause, ("... or prohibiting the
  free exercise thereof

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Establishment clause

• 1. prohibits the establishment of religion
• 2. cant support on religion over another
• Separation of church and state