Author

Publication

1970 - Blaisdell Pub. Co., Waltham, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

45,000 words, Guess

Page Count

180 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC280/.4/0973
  • LCCBR520 .B9

Description

In the following pages the reader will find a number of representative documents illustrative of the Great Awakening in colonial America. The documents I have selected represent my own assessment of importance and interest, and the reader should keep this fact firmly in mind. In general, I have attempted to choose documents which illustrate what I consider to be the major themes of the Awakening. Because the majority of readers are probably most familiar with the revival in literary and intellectual terms -- scholarly study of it has been biased in this way -- I have consciously emphasized an institutional and social context and employed readings taken to a large extent from sources other than the sermons of those contemporaries so commonly associated with the event. I have provided only minimal editorial comment, attempting to indicate in brief introductions why I included a given document and where it fits into the larger picture. - Preface.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Primary sources in American history

Other Editions

  • The Great Awakening: the beginnings of evangelical pietism in America.Blaisdell Pub. Co.1970-01-01

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