The First Great Awakening : redefining religion in British America, 1725-1775 /
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the eighteenth century, sparked enormous controversy at the time and has been a source of scholoarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and, i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Madison, New Jersey :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the eighteenth century, sparked enormous controversy at the time and has been a source of scholoarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and, in recent decades, its having happened at all has been challenged as being either an exaggeration or an "invention." |
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| Physical Description: | x, 345 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-334) and index. |
| ISBN: | 161147714X 9781611477146 |