Lecture 19-- Who is on that RR? Preachers.

wanna find a market revolution? look for evangelical Christians. 
seems a historical force, not planned or conspiratorial

1) The 2nd Great Awakening starting in 1790s and through whole period

 a) A brand new kind of Protestantism for English speakers-- Revivals as key 
    Less intellectual/Way more emotional
    Individual salvation
    Forward-looking & perfectionist-- we can make the world better! 

b) Main figure is Charles Gradison Finney
    The Burned-Over District-- and where is it? ERIE CANAL!!

c) Extreme anti-Catholicism and anti-Masonic movements. Birth of "American Civic Religion" 
    Mainline Protestant Churches/"WASP"
    The movement away from a "general American religion" has been since WWII
    Latest culture war is partly over whether can return to "pole position"?

 

2) Why talk about? Because connected to Market Revolution intimately

a)  Couldnt tell cultural and economics apart. Use religion in their economic debates 
        No cultural change and the market can take hold. 
        Prices on each of road wont be the same because culture can stop market

b)   The biggest issues of "how to live?"
        wage-labor instead of guilds        
        task-work has to go
        
        alcohol has to go    
        festival and violence have to go

c) Evangelical Christians excelled at new market life. With competition, they win. More efficient.
        
 

3) Most issues of "reform" have to do with need for self-control
 

a) Even now, this is the big class marker in American life.

b) “Self-control” issues for middle-class life. Family life will replace patriarchy. Get men under control
        Even now, gender is the thing to look for to see traditional/modern battles

c) The conversion process runs through females

d) Nuclear family as center of society
         Children no longer "little adults"
              Teach them self control too

e) Domesticity & Separate Spheres
      Birth of female space
     “Moral leaders”
          leads into reform associations
          leads into first entry into public sphere


 

4) Institutional Life to instill proper values. Often female-led!
    
     Schools
          Instill self-control and Americanize
           Why "school prayer issue" even now in many parts of country
     Prisons
          The rise of the “penitentiary”
         “Rehabilitation” is what confinement is for
    
    Introduce Foucault


5) Give credit: Furthest wing of evangelical reform, abolition
 
a) W.L.G and “The Liberator”-1831
     very SMALL
     always fractured


b) Mob action constantly against

  
c) Jackson & the post office/gag rule (overturned 1844)

 

6) What is Victorianism?

a) Capitalist & Religious

b) Unlike secular liberals later

c) Stays strong in America