Chapter Outlines

Grant Wacker
"Religion in Nineteenth-Century America"
Religion in American Life: A Short History

Chapter 8: Post revolution

• Religion in the wake of the revolutionary war
• the establishment (of religion) debate
• religion and the constitution: the first amendment
• civil religion
• anti-traditionalists
  • Deists
  • Unitarians
  • Freemasons

Chapter 9: The second Great Awakening

• The second Great Awakening
• Cane Ridge Revival and the Southwest awakening
• Awakening in the East
  • Francis Asbury
  • Charles Grandison Finney
• Baptists
• Legacy of the evangelical revival
  • women
  • colleges
  • "common sense" morality
  • singing and hymns
• conclusion

Chapter 10: Reformers of the early to mid 1800s

• introduction
• evangelical reform movements
  • missionary work
  • literacy campaigns and Sunday schools
  • temperance movements
  • women's rights
  • other reform efforts
• liberal reform movements - Unitarian
  • Dorothea Dix
• radical reform groups
  • William Miller and the "Millerites"
  • Shakers
  • Oneida Perfectionists
• Sojourner Truth
• Conclusion

Chapter 11: 

• Christian movement (early 1800s on)
• Mormons (1830s on)

Chapter 12: Outsiders - religions of 19th century minorities

• Native Americans
  • Native religion
  • Christian Indians
• Asians (mid 1800s on)
• Jews
• African Americans
  • the religion of the slaves
  • AME and AME Zion churches
  • Post Civil war

Chapter 13: The Civil war and religion

• Religions, beliefs and the war
• Christian opposition to slavery
• Southern Christian defense of slavery
• war divides the churches
• religious response to war
  • during the war
  • after the war
• religious influences on Lincoln's view of slavery and the war

Chapter 14:  Catholics in America

• Catholics prior to the 19th century
• Irish Catholics (1820s - 40s)
• German Catholics (1840s on)
• Polish Catholics (1850s on)
• Italian Catholics (1870s on)
• The Catholic clergy
  • Elizabeth Seton
  • Bishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy
• Protestant response to the growing Catholic presence in America (1830s on)
• "Americanists" and "Traditionalists"
• Orthodox churches in America

Chapter 15: Innovators of new ways of thinking (late 19th century)

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Higher Criticism" of the Bible (by rationalists)
• Darwin's theory of evolution
• Awareness of non-Christian religions in America
• Agnostics
• Free Religionists
• liberals

Chapter 16: Traditionalists

• The Bible in America
• Sanctification
  • Dwight Moody
• Pre-millennialism
  • Charles Taze Russell and Jehovah's Witnesses
• Fundamentalists
• Churches of Christ
• Peace churches: Quakers and Mennonites
• Dutch Reformed Calvinists
• Episcopalians
• Lutherans
• Native American prophets
  • Wovoka and the Ghost Dance
  • Peyotisists and the Native American Church

Chapter 17: Changing the World

• Concern for health
  • Divine healing
  • Ellen G. White
  • Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy
• Easing of Poverty
  • The Social Gospel
  • The Salvation Army
• Alcohol and the Temperance Movement
  • Frances Willard and the WTCU
• Missions
  • Domestic
  • Foreign