Unrestricted.2016-11-142012-06-012016-11-142011-05http://hdl.handle.net/2346/ETD-TTU-2011-05-1324This study examines the theatricalization of American Protestant evangelical Christianity during the Second Great Awakening (1790-1840). Using as organizing principles the concepts of form, function, and performance, I illustrate the theatrical shift in the religious culture of American evangelical Protestantism. Further, I attribute a large part of the success of the Second Great Awakening to the theatricalization of evangelical Protestantism.application/pdfengNineteenth-century American theatreSecond great awakeningEvangelical christianityTheatreReligious cultureProtestantismThesis