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Rivers, Revivals, and Rome: Catholicism in the Early United States
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The Second Great Awakening wasn't just about reviving personal faith—it was about saving a society they saw going down the tubes, leading to utopian visions and social reform.
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Early American Catholicism is set against a nation still figuring itself out.
This episode puts early American Catholicism in the middle of a country still figuring itself out. It moves from revolutionary confidence and migration into new territory to the growing distrust of institutions, then circles back through Whitefield and Edwards, whose preaching…
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