Second Great Awakening/Bibliography

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• Abzug, Robert H. "Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination" (1994) (ISBN 0-195-04568-8)
• Ahlstrom, Sydney. A Religious History of the American People (1972) (ISBN 0-385-11164-9)
• Birdsall Richard D. "The Second Great Awakening and the New England Social Order." Church History 39 (1970): 345-64.
• Bratt, James D. "Religious Anti-revivalism in Antebellum America." Journal of the Early Republic (2004) 24(1): 65-106. ISSN 0275-1275 Fulltext: in Ebsco. Examines oppositional literature of the antirevivalists, namely, the doubters and critics. The article includes an appendix of selected revivalist critiques.
• Brown, Kenneth O. Holy Ground; a Study on the American Camp Meeting. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992.
• Brown, Kenneth O. Holy Ground, Too, the Camp Meeting Family Tree. Hazleton: Holiness Archives, 1997.
• Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800–1845 University of Tennessee Press, 1974.
• Butler Jon. "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction." Journal of American History 69 (1982): 305-25. online in JSTOR
• Butler Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. 1990.
• Carwardine, Richard J. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. Yale University Press, 1993.
• Carwardine, Richard J. "The Second Great Awakening in the Urban Centers: An Examination of Methodism and the 'New Measures,'" Journal of American History 59 (1972): 327-340. in JSTOR
• Conforti, Joseph A. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition and American Culture U. of North Carolina Press. 1995. online edition
• Cross, Whitney, R. The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800–1850 1950.
• Foster, Charles I. An Errand of Mercy: The Evangelical United Front, 1790–1837 University of North Carolina Press, 1960.
• Foster, Douglas A. et al, eds. The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement (2005) excerpt and text search
• Griffin, Clifford S. "Religious Benevolence as Social Control, 1815-1860," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 44, No. 3. (Dec., 1957), pp. 423-444. in JSTOR
• Eslinger, Ellen. Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. (1999). 306pp.
• Guelzo, Allen C. "An Heir or a Rebel? Charles Grandison Finney and the New England Theology." Journal of the Early Republic]] 1997 17(1): 61-94. Issn: 0275-1275 online in Jstor
• Hambrick-Stowe, Charles. Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism. Wm B. Eerdmans, 1996.
• Hankins, Barry. The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists. Greenwood, 2004. 200 pp.
• Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity (1989). excerpt and text search
• Johnson, Charles A. "The Frontier Camp Meeting: Contemporary and Historical Appraisals, 1805-1840" The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 37, No. 1. (Jun., 1950), pp. 91-110. in JSTOR
• Keller, Charles Roy. The Second Great Awakening in Connecticut, (1942)
• Keller, Rosemary Skinner, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Marie Cantlon, eds. Encyclopedia of Women And Religion in North America (3 vol 2006) excerpt and text search
• Long, Kimberly Bracken. "The Communion Sermons of James Mcgready: Sacramental Theology and Scots-irish Piety on the Kentucky Frontier." Journal of Presbyterian History 2002 80(1): 3-16. Issn: 0022-3883
• Loveland Anne C. Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order, 1800-1860. 1980
• Marsden George M. The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Experience: A Case Study of Thought and Theology in Nineteenth-Century America. 1970.
• McLoughlin William G. Modern Revivalism 1959.
• McLoughlin William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977 1978.
• McClymond, Michael, ed. Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America. (Greenwood, 2007. Vol. 1, A–Z: xxxii, 515 pp. Vol. 2, Primary Documents: xx, 663 pp. isbn 0-313-32828-5/set.)
• Noll; Mark A. ed. God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 Oxford University Press. 2002.
• Posey, Walter Brownlow. The Baptist Church in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1776-1845 University at Kentucky Press, 1957
• Reeves, Russ Patrick. "Countering Revivalism and Revitalizing Protestantism: High Church, Confessional, and Romantic Critiques of Second Great Awakening Revivalism, 1835 to 1852." PhD dissertation U. of Iowa 2005. 290 pp. DAI 2005 66(4): 1393-A. DA3172430
• Rohrer, James R. Keepers of the Covenant: Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818, 1995. online edition
• Roth Randolph A. The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social Order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791-1850. 1987
• Schmidt, Elizabeth. "Alone with God: Emily Dickinson's Early Religious Rebellion." PhD dissertation New York U. 2005. 207 pp. DAI 2005 66(4): 1357-1358-A. DA3170873
• Shiels Richard D. "The Second Great Awakening in Connecticut: Critique of the Traditional Interpretation." Church History 49#4 (1980): 401-15. online edition
• Smith, Timothy L. Revivalism and Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War 1957, a major interpetation online edition
• Wigger, John H.. and Nathan O. Hatch. Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture (2001) excerpt and text search