Cane Ridge Revival

The original Cane Ridge Meeting House within the Stone Memorial Building

The Cane Ridge Revival was a large camp meeting that was held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, from August 6 to August 12 or 13, 1801.[1][2] It was the "[l]argest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening."[3] This camp meeting launched a multitude of smaller camp meetings on the frontier. In turn they stimulated a deeply personalized religious experience of salvation in hundreds of thousands of men and women.[4]

  1. ^ Wayne Shaw, "The Historians' Treatment of the Cane Ridge Revival." Filson Club Historical Quarterly 37 (1963): 249-55.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Encyclopedia of the Stone–Campbell Movement: Cane Ridge Revival was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Reid, D. G., Linder, R. D., Shelley, B. L., & Stout, H. S. (1990). Dictionary of Christianity in America. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. Entry on Cane Ridge Revival
  4. ^ J. William Frost, "Part V: Christianity and Culture in America," in Christianity: A Social and Cultural History, 2nd Edition, (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1998), 430