Title: The First Great Awakening : redefining religion in British America, 1725-1775 /
Authors: Smith, John Howard, 1968-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Great Awakening; Religious awakening Christianity.; United States Church history
Abstract: 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."
Contents: 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".