1.  The Sequence of Awakenings
 Reformation [1520-1580]
 Puritan Revolution [1630-1660]
 Quaker/Pietist Awakening
 First Great Awakening [1730-1760]
 Great Revival/Second Great Awakening [1800-1840]

2.  Antecedents of the Frontier Revival/Great Revival
 Itineracy during and after the Great Awakening
 Increasing shift to bi-vocational ministers/local ministers
 Virginia camp meetings in the 1780's
 "Moving" or Traveling Congregations

3.  Great Revival in local context
 Tennessee/Kentucky frontier
 Rural context
 Methodist/Presbyterian/Baptist

4.  Revival experience and themes
 Stone's description
 Sin/Judgement/Redemption
 End of the World thought [c.1811]
 Christian discipline/church order

5.  Camp Meetings
 Continues the experience of traveling congregations
 Large, complex gatherings
  see/hear/smell
 Importance of gathering rituals
  think/know/believe
  laugh/dance/cry

6.  Institutionalization of Camp Meetings
 Building of Churches
 Establishment of new congregations
 Permanent "camps"
  Christian campsites
  Assemblies/Retreats
 Tabernacle mentality as Christian motif

7.  Religious pluralism and Christian Unity
 "We have taken the name Christian"
 "The Baptist Church of Christ at Buck Run"
 The name debate
 Commonality of experience
  preaching styles
  hymnody
  use of King James Bible

8.  Great Revival and Christian Diversity
 Emotional/behavioral range of the revival
 Distinctive worship styles
 Rich fragmentation of denominations
 Denominational rivalry/crisis of authority

9.  Revivals and Rural Religion
 Establishes the church as a primary rural institution
 Social function of church society in the rural area
 Church as a stable, connecting institution
 Church as repository of general rural values
 Close association of church and agricultural life
 Geertz:  "Framework of General Ideas"