361.15 19th Century Religion
I. Religious Character of the 19th Century --1800-1900 [1790-1914] --Second Great Awakening in America --First Great Awakening 1735-1760 --Second Awakening/Great Revival --Camp Meetings in the South --Revivals in the North --Broader context of Great Revival: Evangelicalism --World-wide religious activity --Century of Comparative Religions --Other Factors --Growth of Science, Industry --Evolution --Literary, biblical, textual criticism in universities II. Main Causal Factors in 19th Century Religion --European colonialism --consolidation of European interests in N.A., Asia, Africa, M.E. --cultural collisions, displacements --missionary enterprise as extension of evangelical mind --artificial cartography of colonialist policies --Industrialism --development of industries, factories, industrial processes --production of consumer goods --rapid social change --strong rural to city shift --social ills & dislocations --destruction of natural resources --transformation of customary ways --Modernization: the ideology of industrialism --challenge of new ideas: progress, evolution, technical power --reason vs. superstition --pressure upon advocates of customary ways --critique of compensatory religion, advocacy of moral humanism --Evangelicalism --typically Christian, but also Buddhist, Moslem --belief that a faith should be spread and converts sought --highly personal approach to religion --global vision enters religious propagation --Fundamentalism/Literalism --intially a response to textual criticism --eventual formation of rigid belief system/doctrinal creed --affects Christianity, Islam --resolution of problem of authority via authoritative text III. 19th Century Religious Forms and Movements --North America --Great Revival [Second Great Awakening} --Baptists --Methodists Phase I --Presbyterians --Adventists --Pentecostal-Holiness Phase II --Mormon Movement --Oneida Colony and Wilderness Ashram Movement --Oneida --Amish, Mennonites --Amerindian Revivalism --Sun Dance --Ghost Dance --Peyote Cult --Eastern origin cults in North America --Brook Farm Transcendentalism --Brahmanic Spiritualism: Thoreau --Theosophy --Christian Science --Social & Political Movements --Lost Cause --Agrarianism --Populism --KKK [First Klan] --Abolition --Original Sunday School Movement --Asia/Middle East --Taiping [=Great Peace] Rebellion 1850-64 --Boxer [I Ho Ch'uan=Righteous Fists] Rebellion 1898 --Sepoy Rebellion [India] 1857-58 --Ba'hai [Babism] c. 1845 --Iranian Islam and origins of Islamic fundamentalism --First Japanese New Religions --Africa --Mahdi Movement in Sudan c.1880 --Pan-African Restoration IV. General Characteristics of these 19th Century Religious Movements --fervent, intense, devoted --renewal, restorationist --apocalyptic, "finimundialist" [end of the world] --God of power, justice --prophet-type --novel, creative, innovative, syncretistic