The First Great Awakening
Redefining Religion in British America, 1725-1775
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2014
1 pages
978-1-68393-826-2 (ISBN)
Description
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and in recent decades it has been challenged as having happened at all, being either an exaggeration or an "invention." The First Great Awakening expands the movement's geographical, theological, and sociopolitical scope. Rather than focus exclusively on the clerical elites, as earlier studies have done, it deals with them alongside ordinary people, and includes the experiences of women, African Americans, and Indians as the observers and participants they were. It challenges prevailing scholarly opinion concerning what the revivals were and what they meant to the formation of American religious identity and culture.
Cover image: NPG 131, George Whitefield by John Wollaston, oil on canvas, circa 1742. © National Portrait Gallery, London
Cover image: NPG 131, George Whitefield by John Wollaston, oil on canvas, circa 1742. © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
NJ
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-68393-826-2 (9781683938262)
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08/2016
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Person
John Howard Smithis associate professor of history as Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Content
Preface
Introduction: The Problem of the First Great Awakening
PART I: "No Small Appearances of a Divine Work"
Chapter 1: Vital Piety
Chapter 2: Looseness, Irreligion, and Atheism
Chapter 3: Communion-Times
Chapter 4: A Glorious Work of God's Infinite Power"
PART II: "The Late Revival of Religion"
Chapter 5: Many Thousands Flocking to Hear Him Preach the Gospel
Chapter 6: Blessed Be God That Hath Done It!
Chapter 7: Glorious Distraction
Chapter 8: Unhappy Contention
PART III: "Methinks I See Mighty Cities Rising on Every Hill"
Chapter 9: I Claim Jesus Christ to be My Right Master
Chapter 10: A Salvation from Heaven
Chapter 11: More Like True Religion than Any I Ever Observed
Chapter 12: The Seed of Dissention and Discord
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Introduction: The Problem of the First Great Awakening
PART I: "No Small Appearances of a Divine Work"
Chapter 1: Vital Piety
Chapter 2: Looseness, Irreligion, and Atheism
Chapter 3: Communion-Times
Chapter 4: A Glorious Work of God's Infinite Power"
PART II: "The Late Revival of Religion"
Chapter 5: Many Thousands Flocking to Hear Him Preach the Gospel
Chapter 6: Blessed Be God That Hath Done It!
Chapter 7: Glorious Distraction
Chapter 8: Unhappy Contention
PART III: "Methinks I See Mighty Cities Rising on Every Hill"
Chapter 9: I Claim Jesus Christ to be My Right Master
Chapter 10: A Salvation from Heaven
Chapter 11: More Like True Religion than Any I Ever Observed
Chapter 12: The Seed of Dissention and Discord
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
