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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828913103321

Autore

Smith John Howard

Titolo

The first great awakening : redefining religion in British America, 17251775 / / John Howard Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, New Jersey : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61147-716-6

1-61147-715-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Classificazione

11.55

Disciplina

277.307

Soggetti

Great Awakening

United States Church history 18th century

United States Religion 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. "No small appearances of a divine work" -- Part II. "The late revival of religion" -- Part III. "Methinks I see mighty cities rising on every hill."

Sommario/riassunto

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."