Title: The First Great Awakening
Description: 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."
Subjects: Revivals, United states, church history, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Great Awakening, Religious awakening, Christianity, Church history, Religious awakening--christianity, Br520 .s65 2015, 277.307