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Religious Revivalism

Please read the following selections and then answer the questions in the space provided.

Charles Finney, "What a Revival of Religion Is" (1835)

Richard McNemar, The Kentucky Revival, or a Short History of the Late Extraordinary Out-Pouring of the Spirit of God, in the Western States of America (1808)

1 . How would revivalism in more urban areas differ from revivalism in rural America?

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2 . Look at these two sources and examine why religious revivalism began in force when it did.

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3 . What do these two preachers have in common? How are their writings different?

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