"Romantic religion, as it developed in the Southwest, combined the two principal psychological phases of romanticism -- sensibility and imagination. The former was represented by the intense emotion which characterized the entire affair. The imagination phase emerged in the procedure of the camp meeting -- the 'jerks,' the 'barking' exercises,' and those heartrending trances in which the victim 'professed to have seen God, heaven, the angels, the devil, and the damned.'"
-- Romanticism and Nationalism in the Old South, Rollin Osterweis, 1949, p. 188.
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