# Primeiro Grande Despertamento

* Grande Despertamento
* Primeiro (c. 1730–1755)
* Segundo (c. 1790–1840)
* Terceiro (c. 1850–1900)
* Quarto (c. 1960–1980)
O Primeiro Grande Despertar ou Primeiro Grande Despertamento , foi um período de alta atividade religiosa, principalmente no Reino Unido e nas colônias da América do Norte entre 1730 e 1740.

## Leitura recomendada
### Fontes primárias

* Jonathan Edwards, (C. Goen, editor) The Great-Awakening: A Faithful Narrative Collected contemporary comments and letters; 1972, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-01437-6.
* Alan Heimert and Perry Miller ed.; The Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and Its Consequences 1967
* Davies, Samuel. Sermons on Important Subjects. Edited by Albert Barnes. 3 vols. Nova Iorque: Robert Carter, 1845.
* ________. The Reverend Samuel Davies Abroad: The Diary of a Journal to England and Scotland, 1753-55. Edited by George William Pilcher. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1967.
* Gillies, John. Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield. New Haven, CN: Whitmore and Buckingham, and H. Mansfield, 1834.
* Jarratt, Devereux. The Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt. Religion in America, ed. Edwin S. Gaustad. Nova Iorque, Arno, 1969.
* Whitefield, George. George Whitefield's Journals. Edited by Iain Murray. London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1960.
* ________. Letters of George Whitefield. Edited by S. M. Houghton. Edinburgh, UK: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976.

### Fontes secundárias

* Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People (1972) (ISBN 0-385-11164-9)
* Brekus, Catherine A. Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 University of North Carolina Press, 1998
* Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America Oxford University Press, 1988
* Bumsted, J. M. "What Must I Do to Be Saved?": The Great Awakening in Colonial America 1976, Thomson Publishing, ISBN 0-03-086651-0.
* Butler, Jon. "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction." Journal of American History 69 (1982): 305-25.
* Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. 1990.
* Conforti, Joseph A. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition and American Culture University of North Carolina Press. 1995.
* Gaustad, Edwin S. The Great Awakening in New England (1957)
* Gaustad, Edwin S. "The Theological Effects of the Great Awakening in New England," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 40, No. 4. (Mar., 1954), pp. 681–706. in JSTOR
* Goff, Philip. "Revivals and Revolution: Historiographic Turns since Alan Heimert's Religion and the American Mind." Church History 1998 67(4): 695-721. Issn: 0009-6407 Fulltext: in Jstor and Ebsco
* Goen, C. C. Revivalism and Separatism in New England, 1740-1800: Strict Congregationalists and Separate Baptists in the Great Awakening 1987, Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 0-8195-6133-9.
* Goff, Philip. "Revivals and Revolution: Historiographic Turns since Alan Heimert's Religion and the American Mind." Church History 1998 67(4): 695-721. Issn: 0009-6407 Fulltext: in Jstor and Ebsco
* Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity 1989.
* Heimert, Alan. Religion and the American Mind: From the Great Awakening to the Revolution Harvard University Press, 1966
* Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 1982, emphasis on Baptists
* Lambert, Frank. Pedlar in Divinity: George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals; Princeton University Press, 1994
* Lambert, Frank. "The first great awakening: Whose interpretive fiction?" The New England Quarterly, vol.68, no.4, pp. 650, 1995
* Lambert, Frank. Inventing the "Great Awakening"; Princeton University Press, 1999.
* Middlekauff, Robert "The Glorious Cause: the American Revolution", Oxford University Press, 1982.
* McLoughlin, William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977 1978.
* McLaughlin, William G. "Essay Review: the American Revolution as a Religious Revival: 'The Millennium in One Country.'" New England Quarterly 1967 40(1): 99-110. Issn: 0028-4866 Fulltext: in Jstor
* Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism (2001)
* Schmotter, James W. "The Irony of Clerical Professionalism: New England's Congregational Ministers and the Great Awakening", American Quarterly, 31 (1979), a statistical study
* Stout, Harry. The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism William B. Eerdmans, 1991
* Tracy, Joseph. The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield, 1842; republished by Banner of Truth in 1989. ISBN 978-0851517124.