The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers: A Shifting Story
- ISBN-10
- 0739172751
- ISBN-13
- 9780739172759
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-02-27
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Author
- Lisa Smith
Description
The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers is a comprehensive, in-depth study of colonial American newspaper reporting on the First Great Awakening during the years 1739-1748. Lisa Smith uncovers both characteristics of the movement as presented by the papers as well as trends in reporting seen over time. Close analysis of regional reporting differences as well as changes in the newspaper presentation of key revivalists makes this work the most complete examination of the printed newspaper record of the First Great Awakening.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2012
- 195 pages
- Paperback
- Lexington Books
Similar books
-
Colonial American Newspapers: Character and Content
By David A. CopelandIn this book, scholar and journalist David A. Copeland provides a comprehensive discussion of the character and content of the news that ran in British American newspapers from their beginning...
-
The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775
By John Howard SmithLittle, “Adding to the Church,” 377; John B. Boles, The Great Revival: Beginnings of the Bible Belt, rev. ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996), 6–7; Kidd, The Great Awakening, 265–66. Conclusion “A Great and General ...
-
When God Walked Among the Nations: The Leaders and Lessons of the First Great Awakening
By Michael F. GleasonThe Leaders and Lessons of the First Great Awakening Michael F. Gleason. skepticism is certainly understandable, ... 22. Smith, The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers, 34 when god walked among the nations.
-
A History of Christian Conversion
By David W. KlingDavid Frawley, a Hindu convert from Catholicism, echoed these criticisms by calling any organized effort by Christian missionaries to convert others “psychological violence,” an “ideological assault,” a form of “religious violence and ...
-
Inventing the "Great Awakening"
By Frank LambertThis book is a history of an astounding transatlantic phenomenon, a popular evangelical revival known in America as the first Great Awakening (1735-1745).
-
Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism
By Wendy Raphael RobertsRowen Ricardo Phillips, When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (Champaign, IL, and London: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010), 22. Trica Lootens urges scholars to connect the poetess to the experience of Atlantic slavery in The Political ...
-
George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire
By Peter Y. ChoiFor a broader survey, which claims that no other event received as much newspaper coverage, see Lisa Smith, The First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers: A Shifting Story (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012). 3.
-
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
By Douglas L. WiniarskiGeorge Whitefield's departure from New England in October 1740 left Nathan Cole in near despair. Soon thereafter, Cole later explained in his “Spiritual Travels,” “I began to think I was not Elected.” For nearly a year he was beset by ...
-
Paul as Pastor
By Brian S. Rosner, Trevor J. Burke, Andrew S. Malone51 Lisa Smith makes this point with reference to the newspaper coverage of Whitefield during his first tour of America; Smith, First Great Awakening in Colonial American Newspapers, 115. 52 Whitefield, Journals, 474.
-
Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture
By Jonathan M. Yeager... Dudley Leavett, Jonathan Parsons, Thomas Prince, Nathaniel Rogers, Joseph Sewall, Thomas Strong, and Stephen Williams from Massachusetts; Joseph Bellamy, John Graham, Elisha Kent, ... James Smith, and Alexander Webster of Scotland.