{"id":1089,"date":"2020-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/ministries\/universities\/america\/what_was_the_second_great_awakening\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:27:56","slug":"what_was_the_second_great_awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/the-magazine\/what_was_the_second_great_awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was the Second Great Awakening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Great Awakening was a nationwide expansion of Christianity in the US, lasting from 1790 to 1840. The awakening affected the new nation far beyond the realm of religion. It shaped American society in remarkable ways that are with us today.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Great Awakening stretched from New England to the frontiers of the Midwest and Ohio River Valley. Many of the leaders of the awakening were unknown to most Americans. They were country pastors or \u201ccircuit riders\u201d \u2014 itinerant preachers who rode on horseback from place to place to preach the gospel. A few revival leaders were more well-known, like Charles Finney of New York and Timothy Dwight of Yale University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Great Awakening was a nationwide expansion of Christianity in the US, lasting from 1790 to 1840. The awakening affected the new nation far beyond the realm of religion. It shaped American society in remarkable ways that are with us today.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Great Awakening stretched from New England to the frontiers of the Midwest and Ohio River Valley. Many of the leaders of the awakening were unknown to most Americans. They were country pastors or \u201ccircuit riders\u201d \u2014 itinerant preachers who rode on horseback from place to place to preach the gospel. A few revival leaders were more well-known, like Charles Finney of New York and Timothy Dwight of Yale University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,225,30,305],"university":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-church-history","tag-layout_color_line_orange","tag-revival","tag-second-great-awakening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"university","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianunion.org\/america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/university?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}