The second great awakening so popular due to the fact that religion had been made tepid by Diests and Chauncey. Most people were educated and felt the need for a change of the traditional Christian beliefs.
what did the attracted americas to the second great awakening
Pretty much all the religions one would find elsewhere in the United States: Catholicism, Protestantism, Mormonism, Judaism, and Native American religions.
Mormonism is the largest religion founded on American soil.
In what ways did the Great Awakening contribute to the independent spirit of American colonists?
Encyclopedia of American Religions was created in 1987.
The ISBN of Encyclopedia of American Religions is 978-0787696962.
Encyclopedia of American Religions has 1386 pages.
People were actually noticing the freedoms they could have, and doing something to gain those freedoms. Particularly with religion. We are more divided now than before the Great Awakening and more intolerate towards other religions, denominations, people of no-faiths, of different races, cultures, etc.
The Great Awakening (called by historians the "First Great Awakening") was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.
I believe most would consider Johnathan Edwards to be the Preacher who sparked the Great Awakening.
Belief in a creator.hope That could help.
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The Great Awakening (called by historians the "First Great Awakening") was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies