When people think about the Great Awakening, they often think of the First Great Awakening and the preaching of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield. But after the First Great Awakening was a Second Great Awakening. This took place mostly in the early nineteenth century.
The Second Great Awakening had an immense affect, not just on the later evangelical church, but also on the numerous American-born sects and cults of the nineteenth century.
