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This book is a history of an astounding transatlantic phenomenon, a popular evangelical revival known in America as the first Great Awakening (1735-1745). Beginning in the mid-1730s, supporters and opponents of the revival commented on the extraordinary nature of what one observer called the "great ado," with its extemporaneous outdoor preaching, newspaper publicity, and rallies of up to 20,000 participants.
Frank Lambert, biographer of Great Awakening leader George Whitefield, offers an overview of this important episode and proposes a new explanation of its origins. Lambert demonstrates that the Great Awakening was invented - not by historians but by eighteenth-century evangelicals who were skillful and enthusiastic religious promoters.
By examining the texts that these preachers skillfully put together. Lambert shows how they told and retold their revival account to themselves, their followers, and their opponents. His inquiries depict revivals as cultural productions and yield fresh understandings of how believers "spread the word" with whatever technical and social methods seem the most effective.
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Inventing the "great awakening"
1999, Princeton University Press
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Inventing the "great awakening"
1999, Princeton University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-293) and index.
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