02-28-2019, 10:21 AM
(02-27-2019, 11:45 AM)David Horn Wrote:(02-26-2019, 04:11 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: The Missionary Awakening followed the Civil War and the Gilded Age. As I understand it, that 2T included a particularly strong emphasis on worldly affairs; and did not explore or trail blaze the spiritual to anywhere near the level as the Transcendental Awakening.
The Missionary Awakening wasn't entirely dead spiritually-the Missionaries were associated with traditional religion.
Your last sentence makes a good point. The Missionaries DID focus on religion, but they defined as "doing good deeds" rather than "having an abiding faith". They are the two poles of the religious life that pull at one another, with the "faith" group fully in command today. Personally, I'll take the Salvation Army over the Southern Baptist Convention any day. Simply believing is no justification for otherwise bad behavior, but the faith-community assumes it's the one and only ticket to heaven. They're wrong!
Would this be a difference between Dionysian and Apollonian prophets? Missionaries were Apollonian and focused on ethics/morality. Transcendentals and Boomers were Dionysian and focused on having a relationship with God.
Also, back to the OP: I think the culture wars are resolved. Homosexuality and marijuana are now widely accepted all over the Anglosphere, while hard drugs are now fortunately out of fashion. The sex-positive movement has mostly died out, feminists are now firmly against porn and prostitution, and their arguments are sometimes similar to the old Christian Right. Millennials generally don't tolerate cheating on your husband or wife, although they delay marriage to give themselves time for some sexual self-discovery. Weird Satanic and Hindu-inspired cults of the last 3T are also mostly gone.
The current clash of ideologies is tribalism vs cosmopolitanism rather than Rajneesh vs Jesus.