Joseph smith is a true son of the burned over district. I found that region of country what, in the western phrase, would be called, a burnt district. This locality, the seedbed for a number of important social innovations, was a major staging area for westward migration and possibly a major source for the people. Apr 18, 2012 during much of the 1800s, western new york was alive with new religious movements, earning it the title the burned over district because of the fiery nature of many of these faiths. It comes from a quote by charles finney, the father of american revivalism, who explained.
New light on the historical setting of the first vision author milton v. Just as a forest fire can sweep all before it, the religious and reforming urges swept their way across the ontario plain between albany and lake erie, changing the religious and social approaches to life. Revivalism in america during the 19th century religious. The burned over district in early nineteenth century america a call for repentance swept across the country via the body of christ just as it did some fifty years earlier with the first great awakening. He spends a good deal of time examining the burned over district near the erie canal, which spawned a number of new religious and spiritual movements during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This bibliography was generated on cite this for me on thursday, april 14, 2016. He has drawn the social background of the burned over district in rich detail and amplitude. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. Charles finney christian history christianity today.
The social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western new york, 1800 1850 cornell university press, 1950. This book is a study of the social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological causations of the great religious upheavals of the time and their farreaching effects upon american culture. It was, in fact, yankees from the burned over district who founded oberlin, etc. Finney, referred to a burnt district to denote an area in central and western new york state during the second great awakening. It became obvious to many in the young fledgling country the lord wanted their attention as growing pains kicked in to move. These are the sources and citations used to research revivalism in america during the 19th century. Finney referred to a burnt district to denote an area in central and western new york state during the second awakening. Burnedover district wikimili, the best wikipedia reader.
In the 1800s, farmers there were susceptible to revivalist and tent rallies by the pentecostals religious groups. The area witnessed charles grandison finneys greatest. The burned over district is the western and central regions of new york in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the second great awakening took place. The remarkable flowering of spiritual activity in the burnedover district has long puzzled historians. Grassroots reform in the burned over district of upstate new york. Patterns of community development and religious activity, 17611850. The historical question was, why had this phenomenon arisen in this locale, who participated, why, and what were the larger context and impacts.
Other articles where burnedover district is discussed. The towns resident fundamentalist secular humanist thinks he can solve the problem, between changing diapers, visiting his exmistress, and trying to come to terms with his own mortality. It described the religious character of western new york during the first half of the nineteenth century. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. The social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western new york, 18001850 edition 1 available in paperback, nook book read an excerpt of this book. Dec 26, 2019 before returning to the burnedover district, a word about francisco i.
Western new york became the birthplace of one of the worlds great religions when joseph smith dug up the book of mormon on a hillside. The burned over district refers to the western and central regions of new york state in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the second great awakening took place, to such a great extent that spiritual fervor seemed to set the area on fire. Brodie and in her determination to invalidate the spaldingrigdon claims for the origin of the book of mormon. One of the most interesting books on antebellum reform to appear in the middle part of the twentieth century was whitney crosss burnedover district. Submit your story today one evening sometime during the fall of 2011, my friend chris and i were sitting around complaining about the ways of the world. The burned over district refers to the western and central regions of new york in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the second great awakening took place. In between these extremes, the religious effervescences gave the name of the burned over district to western new york.
Whitney rogers cross 191955, a mid20thcentury historian, is still well known in certain american academic circles as the author of the burnedover district. It was in this region that smith had his first vision. The burnedover district and mexican revolution the new. The term was coined by charles grandison finney, who in his 1876 book autobiography of charles g. The social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western new york, 18001850. A burnedover district by charles hibbard nook book ebook. Religion, abolitionism, and democracy studies in african american history and culture. Burnedover district was a name applied to a small region, during a limited period of history, to indicate a particular phase of development. Burnedover district was a name applied to a small region, during a limited period of history. It might be a message from heaven, a futuristic weapons test, federal surveillance, or just a prank. Burnedover district region, united states britannica. An alien spaceship touches down in the sage brush near a small mountain town or does it. New light on the historical setting of the first vision, in exploring the first vision, ed. Madero and how i came upon his manual espirita, this until now obscure and yet profoundly illuminating book at the very least for understanding madero himself, why and how he led mexicos 1910 revolution, and the seething contempt of those behind the overthrow of his.
The social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western new york, 18001850 by whitney r. Finney referred to a burnt district to denote an area in. Moving out of this background, he can bring revivalism, mormonism, and the other new sects into fresh and enlightening perspective. Mormonism, the shakers, and even spiritualism all have roots in this particular region, according to horowitz, who treats the area as an. The burnedover district of new york in the 1840s new york state series by michael barkun aug 1, 1986 paperback. In this book the phrase burned over means areas that were subject to repetitive church revivals run by itninerant preachers who were supported by various denomintions methodists, baptists all protestants. The six decades preceding the civil war were years of intense religious activity in many sections of the united states.
The fervent religiosity of the region caused historians to call it the burned over district. The burned over district religions of central ny by dr. The social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western. Jan 05, 2014 an alien spaceship touches down in the sage brush near a small mountain town or does it. Martin table of contents of saints, sinners and reformers chapter 1 an overview of the burnedover district. During much of the 1800s, western new york was alive with new religious movements, earning it the title the burned over district because of the fiery nature of many of these faiths. Time, subject, and area have thus all combined to confine the scope of this book. Cross called his book both an intellectual and a social history. Read a burnedover district by charles hibbard available from rakuten kobo.
During the first half of the nineteenth century the wooded hills and the valleys of western new york state were swept by fires of the spirit. Nov 30, 2009 the burned over district is a nickname given by 20th century historians to western and central new york. The burned over district bore that name even at the time it existed, from the late 1820s to the late 1840s, because of its large and impassioned religious revivals, reported in news items nationwide. His family moved to palmyra, north of the finger lakes, when smith was around 12. The social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in western new york, 18001850 whitney r. Whitney crosss burnedover district as social history judith wellman aflame with the fires of revivalism and reform, upstate new york before the civil war along with parts of new england and the western reserve earned itself a reputation as a burnedover district.
Burnedover district was a name applied to a small region. Apr 16, 2010 the burned over district bore that name even at the time it existed, from the late 1820s to the late 1840s, because of its large and impassioned religious revivals, reported in news items nationwide. During the second great awakening, evangelical religious fervor swept the country, especially the northeast and midwest, and new ideas and beliefs spread via. Cross the burnedover district was a particularly significant event in both the literary career of fawn m. Burned over district was a name applied to a small region, during a limited period of history, to indicate a particular phase of development. The fervent religiosity of the region caused historians to call it the burned over. After a couple years teaching in new jersey, he returned to new york to help his mother, who had. Burned over district the region of western new york along the erie canal, and refers to the religious fervor of its inhabitants. Saints, sinners and reformers the burnedover district revisited by john h. Smashwords a burnedover district a book by charles hibbard. Originally published in 1950, cross focused his attention on the western part of upstate new york and the religious and reform fervor that dominated the social and religious landscape. During the first half of the nineteenth century the wooded. Inside the burned over district born in connecticut, finney was raised in oneida county, new york.