Talk:Third Great Awakening

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especially the battles against child labor, compulsory elementary education and the protection of women from exploitation in factories.

That sentence may need revision, unless they were against both child labor and education.

And please don't let anyone put any claims about what Darwin said on his deathbed, unless they're extremely well-sourced. There's a popular urban legend claiming he repented on his deathbed, but it's pretty well debunked. 75.36.0.25 22:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I dont understand this awakening because it seems to have produced stronger christians and also stronger non-believers such as athiests and communists. How this came to be doesnt make any sense to me but I guess you would just have had to have been living in that time to get it. I myself am a Christian and i must put in that darwin wished he had never published his work on his deathbed- i wonder what would have happend if people knew that. Certainly the 3rd Great Awakening is mostly on his head and maybe it was his guilt that made him say that.

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This article spends a great deal of time talking about social change during this period of American history, but fails to really address the third great awakening itself more than a stub would. Thus, it needs a great deal of work. --Zantastik 08:01, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Currently, except for the opening paragraph and the Strauss & Howe stuff at the end, the article is heavy on high-level description and light on specific historical facts. What are some distinctive events of the Third Great Awakening (things that happened on a specific day), specifically what artistic changes happened, specifically what conflicting ideas were debated and by whom, specifically what writers wrote what, specifically what economic events and trends occurred and when? The article doesn't have to be a dry list of facts, but it can be a lot more in focus than it is now. --Ben Kovitz 16:16, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have hardly ever heard of a third great awakening. It was certainly not a time of revival as we see in the first and second great awakenings in America. It is most importantly the rise of Secularism, Darwinism, and Dispensationalism. Along with these things is the rise of the temperance/prohibition movement lead largely by Baptists. Social activism grew in this period for sure but could this be attributed to other changes that quickened the pace of society. Telegraphs, railroads, and industrialization in general. Rather than a religious revival/awakening?. Could some of this be seen as a social reaction to the late victorian period with older puritan values trying to reassert themselves in a changing world. This is far different than something religiously awakened.

People who are unaware of the 3rd Great Awakening should read Ahlstrom. All the Protestant churches grew rapidly at this time, and the pietistic ones used tent revivals extensively. Rjensen 06:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)