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Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of … and the University of North Carolina Press)

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This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of extraordinary people living through strange times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and full of life lay piety of the early eighteenth century. George Whitefield’s preaching tour of 1740 known as into question the elemental assumptions of this thriving religious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated with miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit–visions, bodily fits, and sudden conversions–countless New Englanders broke ranks with circle of relatives, neighbors, and ministers who dismissed their religious experiences as delusive enthusiasm. These new converts, the progenitors of lately’s evangelical movement, bitterly assaulted the Congregational establishment.

The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, as women and men groped toward a restructured religious order. Conflict transformed inclusive parishes into exclusive networks of combative spiritual seekers. Then as now, evangelicalism emboldened extraordinary people to query traditional authorities. Their challenge shattered whole communities.

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