spineless pinko's update

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Thu Feb 15 10:49:09 PST 2001


At 01:15 PM 2/15/01 -0500, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
> During the American Revolution when a lot of
>the Founding Fathers were Enlightenment influenced
>Deists. This followed the First Great Awakening in
>the early 1700s which was a period of fundamentalist
>frenzy. Historians of religion label the current phase
>as the fourth round of this lunacy.
>Barkley Rosser

they also argue that both the first and second great awakenings were the source of organizational forms that provided the resources upon which the social movements formed, the second was the abolition movement.

been a long time since i read that material tho, so perhaps someone else has some insight.

kelley



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