The First Great Awakening by John Howard Smith - 9781611477146

The First Great AwakeningRedefining Religion in British America, 17251775\nAuthor(s): John Howard Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Associated University Presses, United States\nImprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press\nISBN-13: 9781611477146, 978-1611477146\nSynopsis\nThe First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and in recent decades it has been challenged as having happened at all, being either an exaggeration or an invention. The First Great Awakening expands the movements geographical, theological, and sociopolitical scope. Rather than focus exclusively on the clerical elites, as earlier studies have done, it deals with them alongside ordinary people, and includes the experiences of women, African Americans, and Indians as then