Shopkeeper's Millennium

The Second Great Awakening profoundly altered the American society. In his book, A Shopkeeper’s Millennium, Paul Johnson, traces the social origins of revival religion by researching Rochester, New York, illustrates the development of classes as the society moves toward industrialization, and analyzes the role of religion in this transformation. The author compares and contrasts the middle class and working class cultures of the city through the analysis of economic, social, political, and religious changes. …showed first 75 words of 894 total…

…showed last 75 words of 894 total…were struggling with their workmen and lost political power, they were more stable than the working class, they were not being oppressed, and soon the religious revival helped them to gain control of their workers back. In A Shopkeeper’s Millennium, Paul Johnson analyzes the two classes, and illustrates that they were very different. The working class was rebelling against their masters, but the Second Great Awakening pacified them and they embraced the middle-class viewpoints.