CZWARTE PRZEBUDZENIE AMERYKI
Journal Title: Zeszyty Naukowe Zbliżenia Cywilizacyjne - Year 2013, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
In this article we see Great Awakenings as the results of critical disjunction in self-understanding. They are not brief outbursts of mass emotionalism by one group or another but profound cultural transformations affecting all Americans and extending over a generation or more. Awakenings begin in periods of cultural distortion and grave personal stress, when people lose faith in legitimacy of norms, the viability of institutions and the authority of leaders in state and church. They eventuate in basic reconstructing of institutions and redefinitions of social goals. Great awakenings are not periods of social neurosis, they are times of revitalization, they are therapeutic and cathartic, not pathological. They restore cultural verve and self-confidence, helping to maintain faith. Revivals and awakenings occur in all cultures. They are essentially folk movements, the means by which a people or a nation reshapes its identity, transform its patterns of thought and action and sustains a healthy relationship with environmental and social change. To understand the functions of American revivalism and revitalization is to understand the power and meaning of America.
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Andrzej Sepkowski
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