Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists Book

«The Second Great Awakening set the tone for evangelical Protestantism's hegemony that would last until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when large numbers of Roman Catholic and Jewish immigrants began to challenge the Protestant consensus the Awakening forged.» The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists, p 48 Barry Hankins

"Seeing that Barry Hankins has a biography coming out on Francis Schaeffer, I found another of his books which promises an interesting scope. Since it is a volume of the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events: 1500-1900, I also expected an introductory volume suitable to an undergraduate class. I was not disappointed. Although evangelical himself, Hankins clearly recognizes Catholics as Christian ' in contrast to the attitudes of many of the reformers of the Second Great Awakening. This book is a solid introduction to the Protestant revival movements of the first half of the 19th Century. It's a good book for a public or academic library to have on hand for general readers."

Criticisms:
* doesn't find much connection between Transcendentalists and Second Great Awakening ' the two movements are mainly parallel.
* doesn't cover the roots of Revivalism in Catholic monasticism or the contemporary Catholic revivalist Isaac Hecker.