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The Second Great Awakening exercised a profound impact on American religious history. By 1859 evangelicalism emerged as a kind of national church or national religion and was the grand absorbing theme of American religious life. The greatest gains were made by the very well organized Methodists.
Religious influence on reform movements is key to What Hath God Wrought's interpretation of the era. Howe grounds the Whigs' optimistic culture of self- and societal-improvement in postmillennial Christian thought and notes the overlap between the Second Great Awakening and the reform impulse. [ 23 ]
Egypt's art was religious and symbolic. Given that the culture had a highly centralized power structure and hierarchy, a great deal of art was created to honour the pharaoh, including great monuments. Egyptian art and culture emphasized the religious concept of immortality. Later Egyptian art includes Coptic and Byzantine art.
Religion and American Culture is a biannual academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis). The journal was established in 1991 and covers the nature, terms, and dynamics of religion in America, and the ...
The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson (1987) University of Virginia Press, ISBN 0-8139-1131-1; Sheridan, Eugene R. Jefferson and Religion, preface by Martin Marty, (2001) University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 1-882886-08-9; Staloff, Darren Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding.
McGreevy, John T., "Faith and Morals in the Modern United States, 1865-Present", Reviews in American History 26.1 (1998): 239-254; Schultz, Kevin M.; Harvey, Paul. "Everywhere and Nowhere: Recent Trends in American Religious History and Historiography", Journal of the American Academy of Religion, March 2010, Vol. 78#1 pp 129–162
Mosul, a major city in northern Iraq, in the 19th century The Print Collector via Getty ImagesFor people who would like to learn more about Islam, The Conversation is publishing a series of ...
American civil religion is a sociological theory that a monotheistic nonsectarian civil religion exists within the United States with sacred symbols drawn from national history. Scholars have portrayed it as a common set of values that foster social and cultural integration.