This week we delve into a topic we've been promising to cover for some time, the Second Great Awakening. This was the religious movement in the United States that spawned the Mormons and Adventists as well as the evangelical factions of more mainline churches. It truly was a time when American Christianity came into its own. As always, though, we'll complicate things a bit and talk about the First Great Awakening and other religious movements before the founding of the United States.
In this episode Hilary and Geoff delve into the historiography of one of the most imfamous events in American history, the Salem Witchcraft Trials...
This week we continue the discussion we started last time about utopian experiments and cults by covering two of the most fascinating and disturbing...
We continue our exploration of the history of cults in America this week with a discussion of two infamous groups from the 1990s: The...