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Great Awakening
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Great Awakening

Religious revival in the American colonies from the late 1730s to the 1760s, sparked off by George Whitefield (1714–1770), an itinerant English Methodist preacher whose evangelical fervour and eloquence made many converts. A second ‘great awakening’ occurred in the first half of the 19th century, establishing the evangelist tradition in US Protestantism.



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Anyone who has studied American history is probably familiar with these periods of dramatic religious revival, but one thing I didn't know is that Great Awakenings really take hold through youth culture.
Our Children, our future? The Equal Time for Freethought interview ... by Taylor, Sunsara / The Humanist
This overview included a look at the First and Second Great Awakenings, the separation of church and state, the diversity of the American religious landscape, the beginnings of the Pentecostal movement, and the influence of tumultuous political and social events of the 1960s and 1970s on Christianity.
The Old Religion in a New World: the History of North American ... by Durso, Pamela / Baptist History and Heritage
Wolfe sees the first two Great Awakenings as nothing but destructive of tradition.
Religious revivalism in the Civil Rights Movement by African American Review
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