1815-1850: Religion
1815-1850: Chapter Nine: Religion
by ELIZABETH KRONZEK
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY 286
OVERVIEW 291
TOPICS IN THE NEWS
African American Christianity 294
Nat Turner: Religion and Rebellion 294
Catholicism 296
Judaism 298
City of Refuge 298
Mormonism 299
Native Americans and Christianity 300
Nativism 302
Priests’ Prisons 302
Revivalism 303
The Burned-Over District 304
Shakers 305
Social Reform 307
Magic and the Occult 307
Southern Protestantism 309
Transcendentalism 310
Women and Religion 311
Rochester Rappings 312
HEADLINE MAKERS
Richard Allen 313
Lyman Beecher 314
William Miller 316
Phoebe Palmer 317
PUBLICATIONS 318
Sidebars and tables are listed in italics.
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