You might also like

More about First Great Awakening

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 435 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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 socio-political 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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: First Great Awakening
• Subtitle: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725-1775
• Author: John Howard Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 356
• EAN: 9781611477146
• ISBN: 161147714X
• ID: 05335809
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Weight: 688 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 236 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. December 2014

Trending among others

---

---

---