378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America
The Realignment
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The Role of Religion in the America of the Mid-19th Century
In the early 1800s or late 1790s, really through the 1840s is experiencing this massive revival of religiosity. The historians call it the second great awakening. You're seeing the emergence and growth of new churches that hadn't been particularly influential in the 18th century. There's a strong sense of providential mission in this that America is going to be God's new Canaan.
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