1815-1850: Religion

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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

Alexander Campbell 315

William Miller 316

Phoebe Palmer 317

PUBLICATIONS 318

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