This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century NewEngland examines the experiences of ordinary people living throughextraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries,and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorouslay piety of the early eighteenth century. George Whitefield's preaching tourof 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thrivingreligious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated by miraculous giftsof the Holy Spirit ...
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This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century NewEngland examines the experiences of ordinary people living throughextraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries,and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorouslay piety of the early eighteenth century. George Whitefield's preaching tourof 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thrivingreligious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated by miraculous giftsof the Holy Spirit-visions, bodily fits, and sudden conversions-countlessNew Englanders broke ranks with family, neighbours, and ministers whodismissed their religious experiences as delusive enthusiasm. These new converts,the progenitors of today's evangelical movement, bitterly assaulted theCongregational establishment. The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, asmen and women groped toward a restructured religious order. Conflicttransformed inclusive parishes into exclusive networks of combative spiritualseekers. Then as now, evangelicalism emboldened ordinary people to questiontraditional authorities. Their challenge shattered whole communities.
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As New. Tan paper-covered boards. xxii, 607 pages: illustrations, maps, charts, facsimiles. "This...history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of the early eighteenth century"--Contents as follows: Introduction--Part one. Godly walkers. I sin in coming unworthily and I sin in staying away unworthily; The loud calls of divine providence; I was born in a land of light; That I might walk answerable to my profession--Part two. In a flame. They build upon a sandy foundation; An extraordinary work on foot in the land; New converts; To write so freely of your own experiences--Part three. Exercised bodies, impulsive Bibles. Peirced by the word; I think I have the spirit of God; His name was in the book of life; If this bee delusion lett mee have more of it--Part four. Pentecost and protest. The Lord opened my mouth; They can hardly be neighbourly or peaceable; He would as soon give the bread in the sacrament to a dog; Let him stand up in the day of Pentecost--Part five. Travels. Out of the fold; Holier than thou; Would not convert a rat; Tohu and Bohu; Nothingarians--Epilogue--Appendix A. A note on church affiliation statistics--Appendix B. Major relations of faith collections--Appendix C. Selected relations of faith, 1697-1801.
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