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How Did We Arrive Here? A Philosophical and Historical Journey Toward Dechurching

As In Heaven

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The Second Great Awakening: A History of American Religious Trends

The second great awakening comes through and it's a similar phenomenon in this regard. It is simultaneously this huge, huge dramatic expansion unlike anything we've seen before in all of American history. By the time of the Civil War, America is an almost thoroughly evangelical nation. The Methodists went from being small, relatively marginal groups around the American founding to being nearly dominant ever since.

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