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What was the purpose of religious camp meetings in the early 1800s?

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Revivals. They would gather large groups of people together and preach for lengthy periods of time, often more than three hours. These were occumpanied sometimes by odd twitchings (the holy twitches) People falling d wn and rolling on the ground, and shouting. It helped to convert People to a certain denomination, but it is important to note that mostly women attended these revivals