Citizens of Zion

Citizens of Zion

Author: Ellen Eslinger

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781572332560

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One of America's most enduring forms of public worship, the camp meeting had its beginnings at the dawn of the nineteenth century during the "Great Revival" that swept the newly settled regions of the young republic. The culmination of this phenonenon came in 1801 at Cane Ridge Presbyterian meetinghouse in Kentucky, where more than ten thousand people gathered for a week of worship and fellowship.