Frontier camp-meeting revivals stamped the American South with an evangelical revivalist culture
Evidence
The Cumberland Valley theater was by far the most dramatic. This is the era of the camp meetings, when settlers gathered for a week or ten days of socializing, hymn singing, prayer, and preaching, which started at sunrise and lasted well into the night. Although critics contended that more souls were conceived than converted, contemporaries tell of people being “slain in the Spirit,” which manifested itself in all sorts of “exercises”—barking, jerking uncontrollably, or falling to the ground. As settlers in this frontier area returned to their homes, they organized Baptist congregations and, with the help of circuit riders, Methodist churches, thereby stamping the South with an evangelical, revivalist ethic that persists to this day. — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 43
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Post-Civil War evangelical revivalism adapted to consumer culture permanently — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 41
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Broader Connections
- Post-Civil War evangelical revivalism adapted to consumer culture permanently
#expands(0.82) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 41