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Religious Zeal and New Communities
By: Carrie Campbell and Milo Freese
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Second Great Awakening
• Renewed and passionate interest in religion
• Occurred because economic growth and expansion of democracy (led to optimism)
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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
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Women during the Awakening
• Often led prayer groups
• Established and taught Sunday schools
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Utopias
• A community created to make a perfect society
• Purpose: organize family life, property ownership and work
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Shakers
• Believed Christ will reappear
• Difficulty recruiting people– No marriage– No children
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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
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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
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Unitarians
• Members of a religious reform movement
• George Ripley founded Brook farms – Created to get away from industry and closer to
nature