The Great Awakening A Brief History with Documents
ISBN: 9780312452254 | 031245225X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 10/13/2007
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In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield as well as many previously unknown preachers, prophets, and penitents. The Great Awakening helped create the evange... MORE
Table of Contents Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Contest over the Great Awakening
The Revivals Begin
George Whitefield: A Media Sensation
The Awakenings Flourish, 1740–1743
Signs and Wonders
Fragmentation
Debating the Awakenings
Revivals in the South
Separatists and Baptists
Historians, the Great Awakening, and the American Revolution
Evaluating the First Great Awakening and American Evange... MORE
Preface
List of Illustrations
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Contest over the Great Awakening
The Revivals Begin
George Whitefield: A Media Sensation
The Awakenings Flourish, 1740–1743
Signs and Wonders
Fragmentation
Debating the Awakenings
Revivals in the South
Separatists and Baptists
Historians, the Great Awakening, and the American Revolution
Evaluating the First Great Awakening and American Evange... MORE
THOMAS S. KIDD (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is associate professor of history at Baylor University. He has focused his research on American religion and has published several articles on the subject, especially on the colonial period. He has authored the books The Protestant Interest: New England after Puritanism and Awakenings: The First Generation of American Evangelical Christianity. Professor Kidd has led a Baylor conference on the global challenges facing Christianity, served on the university’s advisory presidential search committee, and works as a mentor to the university’s Crane Scholars Program.
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