HIS 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Broadway United Church Of Christ, Henry David Thoreau
11 Jun 2018
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Chapter 10: Revivalism, reform, and artistic renaissance 1820-1850
Charles Finney and the Broadway tabernacle page 380
How does the engraving of Finney's sermon at the Broadway Tabernacle reflect his preaching
style?
What type of audience do you think he was primarily reaching out to?
(don’t worry not a journal, she just talked about it)
Spiritual Reform
Second Great Awakening
-Presbyterians
-Methodists
-Baptists
Camp meetings
-Cane ridge Kentucky
Women in religion
-the shakers
-religious utopia
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
-Romantic philosophy
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Henry David Thoreau
Extreme Feminism
-Margaret Fuller
American Utopia
-Brook Farm, MA
-Ideal vs. real world
Thinking about Transcendentalism
"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the
immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As your
simply life your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." -Henry David Thoreau
Cult of Domesticity
Doctrine of Separate Spheres
-Public=masculine
-Private=feminine; home as refuge from industry
Gender Roles
-Men: breadwinner and citizen
-Women: piety, purity, submissiveness, domesticity
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