- "Give me some of that Old Time Religion" - How the Tradition of Camp Meetings Influenced Modern Spiritualism: A Study of Historic Camp Chesterfield

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This paper outlines briefly the history of religious proliferation in the United States and how new religions were founded to fill a spiritual void felt by people before and during the Second Great Awakening (1800-1830) which allowed more non-conventional religious movements to develop and spread. The modern Spiritualist movement, as a way to reach a larger number of adherents more easily,eventually adopted the Protestant concept of "camp meetings," which had helped denominations to evangelize their religions more comprehensively. Brick and mortar churches in the early years of the Spiritualist movement were few and far between, which made growing congregations difficult. Once the concept of "camp meetings" that were so successful amongst the Protestant religions began to infiltrate the Spiritualist movement, what initially began as temporary meeting places (i.e. campgrounds) where adherents brought tents and cooking utensils to use during the camp meeting, began to become more permanent as land was purchased and structures built upon the land to allow more regular gatherings to take place. Adherents to the Spiritualist movement (and eventual religion) supported dozens of such camps around the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Today, there are only a handful of active Spiritualist camps still in use and regularly attended by Spiritualists; the largest camp is "Lily Dale Assembly" in New York; the second largest camp is "Camp Chesterfield" in Indiana; and the third largest camp is "Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp" in Florida. This paper examines in detail the history and functioning of Camp Chesterfield, showing how it was founded and grew into a thriving gathering place for Hoosier Spiritualists.

福岡教育大学紀要. 第一分冊, 文科編

Bulletin of University of Teacher Education Fukuoka. Part I, Language and literature

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