Complex sentence: In the First Great Awakening, rather than listening demurely to preachers, people groaned and roared in enthusiastic emotion; new divinity schools opened to challenge the hegemony of Yale and Harvard; personal experience became more important than formal education for preachers.
Split into simpler sentences: In the First Great Awakening, rather than listening demurely to preachers, people groaned and roared in enthusiastic emotion. New divinity schools opened to challenge the hegemony of Yale and Harvard; personal experience became more important than formal education for preachers.