1. Religion in Age of Jackson

2. “Religion, which never mixes directly in government in America, must be regarded as their primary political institution….I have seen Americans form associations to send priests to the new Western states, to found schools and churches there; they fear that religion might be lost in the wilderness.... ‘All American republics are united,’ they will say; ‘If the republics of the west were to fall into anarchy, or submit to the yoke of despotism, the republican institutions that flourish along the Atlantic coast would be threatened; it is thus in our interest to ensure that the new States are religious, so that they allow us to remain free.’” (pp. 87- 88)

3. Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) 1814 Yale Graduation Address

4. Popular Religion Takes Over, 1776-1850 “Adherence” Figures

5. Religious Adherents by Denomination, 1776

6. Religious Adherents by Denomination, 1776 and 1850

7. Popular Religion Religious Freedom Radicalism of the Revolution

8. Factors behind Methodist Growth A New Kind of Preacher Arminian Theology Organizational Structure

9. Methodist Organization Local Preachers Exhorters Class Leaders Circuit Riders Francis Asbury

10. Factors behind Methodist Growth A New Kind of Preacher Arminian Theology Organizational Structure “Enthusiasm”

11. Women and Methodism Methodist Worship Jarena Lee

12. African-American Christianity Preachers and Exhorters Henry Evans The Exodus Story

13. Independent Black Churches Richard Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), 1792

14. Mormonism Joseph Smith Family History Visions, the Angel Moroni Book of Mormon, 1830 Warnings in the Book Mormon Migration

15. Long-term Consequences of Popular Religion?