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Issue 45 : Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders: Frontier Revivals

Originally published in 1995

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Table of Contents

Camp Meetings and Circuit Riders: Did You Know?

Little Known Facts about Camp Meetings and Circuit Riders

Timothy K. Beougher
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: From the Editor - Religion Untamed

Mark Galli
Revival at Cane Ridge

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

Mark Galli
Piercing Screams and Heavenly Smiles

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

Barton W. Stone
A Bird's-Eye View of a Camp Meeting

The Editors
Wrestling with God and Man

Dramatic accounts from the frontier's most popular autobiography.

Peter Cartwright
Holy, 'Knock-'Em-Down' Preachers

John H. Wigger
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: A Gallery of Trendsetters in the Religious Wilderness

David Goetz
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: Christian History Timeline

Keith J. Hardman
Counter-Culture Christianity

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

Bruce L. Shelley
Rejecting the Negro Pew

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

Wesley A. Roberts
All Sins Swept Away

A slave describes her delayed but dramatic conversion.
Focus on the Frontier Family

How Methodists strengthened the Christian home—and changed it.

Gregory Schneider
The Great Spirit Descends

A stirring camp meeting among Native Americans.

James B. Finley
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: Christian History Interview - Revivals That Changed a Nation

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

Nathan O. Hatch
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: Recommended Resources

Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.

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