ABSTRACT
Another English discussion of American revivals, this time in the late 1850s, provides evidence of a different strand of anti-revivalism from Mrs Trollope's. American Episcopal clergymen, against what they saw as the theatrical words and emotionalism of revivals, set the saving strength of the church as an institution whose resources for guiding the faithful included the authority of a tradition claimed to reach back to the Apostles, doctrine, discipline and cherished forms of worship. In the context of the 'democratization' of religion by the mid-nineteenth century this perspective became more and more marginal.
