The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents

The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents
ISBN-10
031245225X
ISBN-13
9780312452254
Series
The Great Awakening
Category
History
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2007-10-13
Publisher
Bedford/St. Martin's
Author
Thomas S. Kidd

Description

A detailed examination of the First Great Awakening, this volume presents a valuable study of the spiritual movement that profoundly shaped colonial American cultural and religious life. Thomas Kidd’s comprehensive introduction relies on recent scholarship to describe three contemporary views of the revivals: those of radicals in favor of them, moderates supporting them, and antirevivalists attacking them. The views and experiences of these participants and critics emerge through nearly 40 documents organized into topical sections. By expanding coverage of the radicals and the ordinary people, including women, African Americans, and Native Americans, who joined the revival movement, Kidd gives students an opportunity to hear a broader collection of voices from colonial American society. The volume also includes illustrations, headnotes to the documents, a chronology of the Great Awakening, a selected bibliography, questions to consider, and an index.

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