In the late 1800s, the Third Great Awakening produced the social gospel, which inspired the labor movement and the New Deal. And In the 1960s, the Fourth Great Awakening gave us the civil rights movement, liberation theology, and the Great Society. These spiritual awakenings occur roughly every 70 years, moments when political instability, economic inequality, and social upheaval lead people to look inward, to reclaim old traditions, to live out of their roots. (08:16–08:25)
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Asserts that the Fourth Great Awakening in the 1960s led to the civil rights movement, liberation theology, and the Great Society.
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