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Fire on the Frontier: The Burned Over District and America’s Religious
·53 min·5 clips
John Fagent connects the Burned Over District directly to Mormonism, women's rights, prison reform, and the anti-slavery movement.
As heard by us
A local revival story that opens into a larger map of American Christianity.
The episode uses the Burned Over District as a clean way into early-19th-century American religion, moving from Buffalo-area context to revival culture, New England migration, and the push against Calvinism.
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A Western New York history lesson with revival theology and a national-scale religious shift.
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