The great awakening in Virginia, 1740-1790
By: by Wesley M. Gewehr
Series: Duke University publications; Duke University publications
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Revivals; Great Awakening; Church history
Description: In this study of the Great Awakening in Virginia, the author endeavors to show the far-reaching effects of the series of evangelical revivals which swept the colony in wave after wave during the thirty or forty years preceding the American Revolution, and then again after the war. He believes that he has proven that the rise of the popular churches, which resulted from the Great Awakening, contributed very definitely, not only to the religious life of Virginia, but also to the rise of political democracy, and to the social revolution which had transformed the Old Dominion by the end of the eighteenth century. Furthermore, he shows that the Great Awakening set in motion certain humanitarian and educational forces which left their permanent impress upon the life of Virginia. -- Preface.
Notes: "This work was first undertaken as a doctoral dissertation [University of Chicago, 1922]"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: The great awakening comes to America; title: The Virginian background; title: The militant presbyterians; title: Samuel Davies and the consolidation of presbyterianism in eastern virginia; title: The baptist revival; title: Devereux Jarratt and the methodist movement; title: Post-revolutionary evangelism; title: Contributions to the rise of democracy; title: The founding of colleges; title: The evangelicals and slavery; title: Religion and the social revolution.