Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism

Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism
ISBN-10
1572332565
ISBN-13
9781572332560
Category
History
Pages
332
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Author
Ellen Eslinger

Description

One of America's most enduring forms of public worship, the camp meeting had its beginnings at the dawn of the nineteenth century during the "Great Revival" that swept the newly settled regions of the young republic. The culmination of this phenonenon came in 1801 at Cane Ridge Presbyterian meetinghouse in Kentucky, where more than ten thousand people gathered for a week of worship and fellowship.

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