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First Great Awakening

Redefining Religion in British America, 1725 - 1775
  • ISBN-13: 9781611477160
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By John Howard Smith
  • Price: AUD $117.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/10/2016
  • Format: Paperback 356 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]
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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. (c) National Portrait Gallery, London
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
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