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The Red River Meeting House was the site of the first religious camp meeting in the United States. Held June 13–17, 1800, it marked the start of the Second Great Awakening, a major religious movement in the United States in the first part of the nineteenth century.〔(Red River Meeting House ), accessed September 25, 2006〕〔(Wright, Nancy, Pearce Memorial United Methodist Church ), accessed February 2, 2007〕 The meeting was organized by the Presbyterian minister James McGready (also spelled M'Gready) in Logan County, Kentucky, and several preachers took part. ==First camp meeting== What later became known as the Revival of 1800 began as a traditional Presbyterian sacramental occasion at the Red River Meeting House in June of the same year. As the revival spread to the congregations of McGready's two other area congregations, several hundred people attended the meetings, held from Friday through Tuesday.〔(C.S. Lewis Institute ), accessed September 25, 2006〕 McGready's other congregations were located at Muddy River, and Gasper River. The meeting was a chance for the settlers to end their relative isolation for several days and to engage with new people.〔 A letter from McGready to a friend dated October 23, 1801, described the meeting.〔(Historical Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church ), accessed September 25, 2006〕 〔(PB Ministries ), accessed September 25, 2006〕 The Presbyterian minister Barton W. Stone observed the events and wrote the following:〔 The historian Paul Conkin downplays the significance of the Red River meeting in relation to the religious revival. He says that McGready was one of several preachers at the event. The preacher wrote an account that was widely circulated, and which was instrumental in forming people's perceptions of the events at the meeting. Conkin thinks that McGready's account was exaggerated.〔(Paul Conkin, ''Border States'' ), Journal of the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association, No. 10 (1995), accessed September 25, 2006〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Red River Meeting House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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