What the next First Turning won't be like

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(12-30-2020, 08:06 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(12-30-2020, 05:03 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: In regards to the USA, it seems like that every Awakening includes a religious revival based on traditional religion.   Including  both Apollo and Dionysus type Awakenings.  

So an obvious prediction is that the next 2T will see a religious revival based on traditional religion, whatever the other themes or relative strength of the Awakening.

That seems an easy prediction. But also, the New Thought and New Age kind of religious awakening has been growing in each successive 2T. It was quite strong in the Missionary (aka Third Great) Awakening, in the USA and the UK, with the birth of the New Thought churches, theosophy, the golden dawn, a spiritualism trend, and other such groups.

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One marked difference in the last Awakening was that the biggest shift in organized religion was a reactionary, anti-rational, anti-scientific thread that claimed to repudiate evolution (or as Jimmy Swaggart called it. "Evil-lution") in favor of a literal understanding of biblical time. Also, of course, offering pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die as a reward for deference to the will of the economic elites.

Here is an irony: the Mountain South was originally Presbyterian, which is mainline Calvinist Protestantism... but a novel trend in fundamentalist "Southern Baptist" churches cannibalized Presbyterianism.