Issue 45 Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders

Little Known Facts about Camp Meetings and Circuit Riders.

It is hard to capture the spiritual ferment that shook early America.

What exactly happened at the most important camp meeting in American history?

An eyewitness account of signs and wonders at early camp meetings.

Camp meeting rules came from years of experience.

Dramatic accounts from the frontier’s most popular autobiography.

The common Methodist circuit rider transformed American Christianity.

Who was who in early American frontier religion.

Chronology of some important events in American frontier religion.

A look at the radical utopian communities that sprang up across the early frontier.

As revival religion blossomed, so did the independent black church.

A slave describes her delayed but dramatic conversion.

How Methodists strengthened the Christian home—and changed it.

A stirring camp meeting among Native Americans.

Frontier faith captured the heart of the common person—and molded America’s character.

More resources about Christianity on the American frontier.