For many, "the Second Great Awakening" is one of those historical terms from a dusty textbook that sounds vaguely familiar, but the details are fuzzy at best. Yet the Second Great Awakening was hugely ...

The long and arduous "mumon linahyan" that has engulfed Guam’s community for a number of years is echoing schisms of another era in history – 1517 to be exact and seems to be resulting in the ...

The Second Great Awakening. Author Jack Kelly, discussed the reasons for and the religious trends occurring during the Second Great Awakening. He spoke about elements of the religious revival in ...

A Second Great Awakening flared some 50 years later and lasted into the 1830s, this one originating in New England but rapidly spreading across the American frontier through traveling preachers.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Considered a major world religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established during an early 19th-century, religious-revivalism movement in America known as ...

During the Second Great Awakening in the decades before the Civil War, a broad turn to religion fueled a re-moralization of a society reeling from surging rates of crime, ...

Inspired by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph Smith founded the most widely-practiced religion founded in the United States, the Mormon faith. Kevin O'Leary on EU willing ...

The best known of these movements, the Second Great Awakening (c. 1795–1835), produced moral-reform movements around public education, social services, women’s suffrage, and the establishment ...

Before the Second Great Awakening, there had been the First Great Awakening. It swept Britain’s American colonies beginning in the early 1700s, partly as the result of a religious ferment ...

“More people have left the church in the last 25 years than all the new people who became Christians from the First Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening and Billy Graham crusades combined ...

Yet the Second Great Awakening was hugely impactful and helped to change the way we think about and approach charity, giving, and concepts of "worthiness" that are still with us today. In a nutshell, ...