Second Great Awakening

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Protestant revival historical event religious revival movement

The Second Great Awakening was a major early-19th-century American religious revival movement that spurred widespread evangelical fervor, social reform campaigns, and the rapid growth of Protestant denominations.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Protestant revival → historical event → religious revival movement →
country	United States →
endTime	1840s → mid-19th century →
hasCharacteristic	Protestant → democratic in style → emotional preaching → evangelical → focus on conversion → focus on personal salvation → focus on social reform → mass meetings → revivalist →
hasEffect	decline of established churches’ dominance → democratization of American Christianity → emergence of perfectionism theology in the United States → emergence of social reform as a religious duty → emphasis on emotional religious expression → emphasis on free will in salvation → emphasis on individual conversion experience → emphasis on moral reform of society → emphasis on personal piety → expansion of Sunday schools → expansion of revivalism on the American frontier → growth of evangelical Protestantism in the United States → growth of revival preaching → growth of voluntary religious societies → increase in church membership in the United States → promotion of temperance movement → rapid growth of Baptist churches → rapid growth of Methodist churches → rise of Bible societies → rise of evangelical fervor → rise of interdenominational missionary societies → rise of lay participation in religious life → rise of tract societies → spread of camp meetings → support for abolitionism → support for educational reform → support for moral reform movements → support for prison reform → support for women’s rights activism →
hasPart	camp meetings → frontier revivals → missionary campaigns → reform societies → urban revivals →
influenced	Adventist movement → American evangelicalism → Latter-day Saint movement → Restoration Movement → Second Party System political culture → abolitionist movement in the United States → development of new religious movements in the United States → educational reform movement in the United States → prison reform movement in the United States → temperance movement in the United States → women’s rights movement in the United States →
mainLocation	United States →
religion	Protestantism →
startTime	1790s → late 18th century →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
American Temperance Society → Lane Theological Seminary → New Divinity theology → Ohio Valley region → Thomas Campbell →	associatedWith
American Protestantism → American abolitionist movement → Views in Theology →	influencedBy
Beecher family → Plea for the West →	associatedWithMovement
Lyman Beecher → Mary Lyon →	movement
Great Awakening →	followedBy
Early Republic of the United States ("Second Great Awakening (early phase)") →	hasPart
The Christian System ("Second Great Awakening era") →	historicalPeriod
The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery ("Cane Ridge Revival") →	relatedEvent
Antebellum period →	significantEvent