Does the Great Revival and the Great Awakening refer to the same thing?
Upvote:1
No. But they refer to the same type of (American) phenomenon called an "awakening."
In their 1991 book, "Generations," (the late) William Strauss and Neil Howe (S&H) offered an explanation for these types of events. They postulate that there are four different types of generations, about 20 years apart, in roughly an 80 year cycle. The purveyors of "Awakening" experiences are so-called Idealist generations born immediately after a major Anglo-American war. These wars are the Glorious Revolution/War of Spanish Succession, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II.
According to this theory, the bunch of American children born in the "peace and prosperity" following the War of Spanish Succession became the Great Awakeners. They grew up in an economically prosperous and intellectually sterile era. Upon reaching adulthood in the 1730s and 1740s, they tried to compensate for the sterility of their youth by bringing about a religious awakening. Other generations had religious experiences of course, but the fervency and self-absorption of such experiences is unique to the Idealist generations. Late in life, Awakeners like Benjamin Franklin turned their attention to issues like "No taxation without representation," and "unite or die."
The Great Revival is sometimes known as the Second Great Awakening, and was a religious awakening much like the first one. It occurred during the 1820s and 1830samong the "Transcendental" generation (of Abraham Lincoln and Nathaniel Hawthorne) born after the American Revolution. Transcendentalism was the American version of European romanticism, representing a new wave of idealism that was a countercurrent to the rational empiricism of the "Republican" generation that won the American Revolution and launched America on the road to world power. (This Republican*generation was the 18th century version of the World War II generation.) Depending on their location, the "Transcendentalists" were either strongly for or against slavery, not "wishy-washy" like their parents.
The latest Idealist generation is the Baby Boom generation born after World War II inherited a prosperous world of peace and love and brotherhood from the World War II generation. In their young adulthood, the Boomers wondered "is this all there is?" and their answer to this question was "Woodstock", a 1969 multi-day rock concert that literally rocked the world, and world culture for decades to come. Unlike previous awakenings, the Boomers created a secular, not religious, awakening.
*The Republican generation is the name that S&H gave to the soldiers that won the American revolution. My preferred monicker is the "Continental" (Soldier) generation.
More post
- 📝 Middle east and North africa population during the high middle ages
- 📝 Why did Bierut threaten to murder families of those who did not join him?
- 📝 How many ministerial deferments were there during WWII for the United States?
- 📝 What was the basic structure of power in the CPSU and how were the politicians at each level chosen?
- 📝 Did MacArthur ever consider ordering Wainwright's troops to fight an insurgency war, rather than surrendering?
- 📝 Where can I find this paper by Jean Buridan?
- 📝 Did monotheistic religions play a role in shaping the belief that political power should be in the hands of an all powerful monarch?
- 📝 What are some examples of King George III "protecting [the British] from punishment"?
- 📝 Does city-specific economic data for the pre-WW2 decades exist for Japan and Germany? How do I find out?
- 📝 How did the general population of England convert so smoothly to Protestantism?
- 📝 Meaning of the words "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
- 📝 What is the current academic consensus on Charlemagne's genealogy?
- 📝 Did the passage from Latin to English, in England, help science flourish?
- 📝 What constitutes a country's military being called a "Defence Force"?
- 📝 What is the origin of heraldic buffalo horns?
- 📝 Is there documentary evidence that Stalin intended/prepared to fight Germany after the Nazi-Soviet pact?
- 📝 The Penny Wedding - what are the items in the bottom right corner and why are they there?
- 📝 Are there any primary sources on the letter Hulagu wrote to Qutuz?
- 📝 Can anyone render this passage from Lorenzo Valla's original Latin translation of Herodotus into modern text?
- 📝 What percentage of NAACP in the 1910s was Jewish?
- 📝 Did Midway provide the strategic opportunity Japan sought?
- 📝 Why is Marx more prominent than Engels?
- 📝 Where did Wilson state that the US would have to force access to markets with violence?
- 📝 How much did King George III of Britain weigh?
- 📝 How dangerous was it to be a coast watcher during the Pacific War?
- 📝 Who were the exponents of what Marx dismissed as 'German socialism'?
- 📝 What was Pope Innocent III's response to the Children's crusade led by Stephan of Cloyes?
- 📝 Are there any good sources on the history of the name for Kazakhstan?
- 📝 Abraham Lincoln Quote Background
- 📝 Were there restrictions on German refugees entering the US during World War II?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Does the Great Revival and the Great Awakening refer to the same thing?
- 📝 In Great Britain, did the Liberal Unionists and Conservatives ever compete for the same seats in elections?
- 📝 Why does the United States keep using "old" date representations and imperial system, while being in the minority?
- 📝 Why does Japan use the same type of AC power outlet as the US?
- 📝 If the Union Jack joins the flag of England and Scotland, why does it have a different shade of blue than the Scottish flag?
- 📝 Why were British ships not of the same quality as French and Spanish ships until the latter part of the 18th century?
- 📝 Why does the Great Wall of China follow such a bendy route?
- 📝 During the Great Depression, did the US Army do a study involving paying people to dig a hole and fill it back up?
- 📝 Were Alexander the Great and Hephaestion lovers?
- 📝 Does anyone recognize the identity and location of this octagonal structure?
- 📝 What did Tacitus write about Nero and the Great Fire of Rome 64AD?
- 📝 Why does the CIA report on the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich refer to it as "Operation Salmon" rather than "Operation Anthropoid"?
- 📝 How do Friedman and Bernanke's explanations about the causes of the Great Depression compare?
- 📝 What does the skull and crossbones on the Nazi uniform represent?
- 📝 Has a major war ever occured and a map before the war looked exactly the same after?
- 📝 Have Moscow and Beijing ever been cities under the same rule?
- 📝 What is the source of "the three most useless things in the world are the Great Wall, Pyramids, and the Yamato"?
- 📝 Are the Dacians and the Getae the same people?
- 📝 What is this card, and why does it go "on the hat"?
- 📝 What is the historical evidence for asserting Huns were one and the same as Xiongnu?
- 📝 What is the earliest example of the usage of 'Nazis' to refer clearly and exclusively to the National-Socialists?
- 📝 Does Japan have the constitutional and legal right to have its own army or navy?
- 📝 Why did Homer’s Greeks sack so many cities in the Trojan War? Does it make them mostly pirates and slave raiders?
- 📝 Are a fief and a vassal state the same thing?
- 📝 What does this acronym and the symbol in the middle represent?
- 📝 Why did Empress Elizabeth and Catherine the Great of Russia have such different policies toward Frederick the Great?
- 📝 When was the last moment that Dutch, German and Swiss German were the same language?
- 📝 What does the phrase "Vietnam, the mixture of up and down" mean?
- 📝 When were both minuscule and majuscule letters used for the first time in the same Latin manuscript?
- 📝 Before the Great War, was the word "Poland" typically used to refer only to the Russian partition of Poland?