378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America
The Realignment
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The Second Great Awakening
The second great awakening is occurring in the two alongside two other really important developments. One is the development of a market economy. The emergence of this new market economy is occurring alongside the democratization of American politics. And it's hard to say why these three things are happening together, but they certainly are. We know that the second great awakening was most vibrant in places that had experienced a market revolution. These are the places where religious enthusiasm was the strongest and where political competition and participation was the strongest.
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