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Religious Zeal and New Communities: The Second Great Awakening

Explore the impact of the Second Great Awakening, a religious revival marked by fervent interest and new communities striving for spiritual perfection, utopias, and social reform. Discover the role of women in leading prayer groups and teaching, as well as the beliefs of Shakers, Mormons, Transcendentalists, and Unitarians.

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Religious Zeal and New Communities: The Second Great Awakening

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  1. Religious Zeal and New Communities By: Carrie Campbell and Milo Freese

  2. Second Great Awakening • Renewed and passionate interest in religion • Occurred because economic growth and expansion of democracy (led to optimism)

  3. Revivalist • Participants in the large religious crowds and gatherings • Joined in huge, religious crowds • Listened to sermons • Sang hymns • Sought gods help in reforming their life • Influence because they believed people can attain salvation if sins were repented

  4. Women during the Awakening • Often led prayer groups • Established and taught Sunday schools

  5. Utopias • A community created to make a perfect society • Purpose: organize family life, property ownership and work

  6. Shakers • Believed Christ will reappear • Difficulty recruiting people • No marriage • No children

  7. Mormons • Members of the church of the latter-day saints • Most enduring in utopias • John smith • Claimed divine assistance enabled him to discover and translate teachings

  8. Transcendentalism • Belief to rise above material things in life to reach a higher level of understanding • Perfection could be reached with knowledge about god, themselves, and the universe

  9. Unitarians • Members of a religious reform movement • George Ripley founded Brook farms • Created to get away from industry and closer to nature

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