Schedule: The following tentative schedule should be used as a guide for the completion of assignments and readings. Required readings are listed under the topic of each class session.

Jan. 18
Introduction

Jan. 20
The Origins of the First Great Awakening

• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chaps. 1, 3

Jan. 25
George Whitefield and the First Great Awakening

• Stout, Divine Dramatist, ix-132
• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chap. 2

Jan. 27
George Whitefield and the First Great Awakening

• Stout, Divine Dramatist, 133-287
• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chap. 2

Feb. 1
The Impact of the First Great Awakening on American Society

• Jon Butler, "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretive Fiction," Journal of American History 69 (September 1982):305-325
• Rhys Isaac, "Evangelical Revolt: The Nature of the Baptists' Challenge to the Traditional Order of Virginia, 1765 to 1775," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 31 (July 1974):345-368

Feb. 3
Interpretations of the Origins of the Second Great Awakening; Origins of the Great Revival

• Conkin, Cane Ridge, ix-63
• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chap. 4 (Beginnings)
• DEADLINE FOR APPROVAL OF TERM PAPER TOPICS BY DR. TALLANT

Feb. 8
The Great Revival at Cane Ridge, 1801

• Conkin, Cane Ridge, 64-178
• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chap. 4 (Cane Ridge & Barton Stone's Story)

Feb. 10
Exam 1

Feb. 15
The Second Great Awakening and the Democratization of American Christianity

• Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity, xiii-122

Feb. 17
The Second Great Awakening and the Democratization of American Christianity

• Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity, 123-243

Feb. 22
Theology and the Second Great Awakening; Charles G. Finney and the "New Measures"

• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chap. 5

Feb. 24
The Second Great Awakening, Reform, and Politics

• Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform, 7-62

Feb. 29
The Prayer Revival of 1857-58; Revivalism and the Civil War

• Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform, 63-94, 178-224
• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chaps. 7-8

Mar. 2
The Development of Mainline, Liberal Christianity after 1860; The Social Gospel, Progressivism, and Prohibitionism

• Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform, 95-102, 148-177

Mar. 7
Dwight L. Moody and Victorian Revivalism

Mar. 9
The Rise of the Holiness Movement

• Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform, 103-134

Mar. 14
No Class-Spring Break

Mar. 16
No Class-Spring Break

Mar. 21
The Azusa Street Revival of 1906-07 and the Origins of the Modern Pentecostal Movement

• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chap. 8

Mar. 23
The Azusa Street Revival of 1906-07 and its Consequences

• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chap. 9

Mar. 28
Exam 2

Mar. 30
The Development and Decline of Conservative, Fundamentalist, and Premillennialist Forms of Protestantism

Apr. 4
Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America

• Dorsett, Billy Sunday, all pages

Apr. 6
The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism, 1930s-40s

• Carpenter, Revive Us Again, xi-140

Apr. 11
Billy Graham and Modern Evangelicalism, 1940s-60s

• Carpenter, Revive Us Again, 141-249

Apr. 13
Revivalism Renewed, 1960s-70s: Oral Roberts and the Modern Charismatic Revival, Televangelism, The Asbury Revival of 1970 and the Jesus People

Apr. 18
The Fundamentalist v. Modernist Debate in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1979-95

• Ammerman, Baptist Battles, xi-125

Apr. 20
No Class-Good Friday Observance

Apr. 25
The Fundamentalist v. Modernist Debate in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1979-95

• Ammerman, Baptist Battles, 126-293
• TERM PAPERS DUE APRIL 25

Apr. 27
Is There a New Awakening in the 1990s?; Promise Keepers and the College Revivals of 1995-96

• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chap. 10

May 2
The Laughing Revival (or, the Toronto Blessing); the Brownsville Revival in Pensacola

• Tallant, ed., "American Revival Narratives," chaps. 11-12

May 10
Exam 3 will be given Wednesday, May 10, at 3:00-5:00