The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history. Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves...
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The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through...
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The First Great Awakening, sometimes Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen...
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The Third Great Awakening refers to a historical period proposed by William G. McLoughlin that was marked by religious activism in American history and...
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The Fourth Great Awakening was a Christian awakening that some scholars – including economic historian, Robert Fogel – say took place in the United States...
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"The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening" is an essay by American author Tom Wolfe, in which Wolfe coined the phrase "'Me' Decade", a term that...
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era of confessionalization followed by Rationalism, Pietism, and the Great Awakenings. Major movements today include Evangelicalism, mainline denominations...
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The Great Awakening is the fourth studio album from the Christian rock band Leeland, released on September 20, 2011. The Great Awakening received a nomination...
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and Williams College. The Great Awakening has been called the first truly American event. The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust—Presbyterians...
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Christian denomination (section Second Great Awakening)
humanity. Restorationism emerged after the Second Great Awakening and collectively affirms belief in a Great Apostasy, thus promoting a belief in restoring...
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bodhi ("awakening") Great Awakening, several periods of Anglo-American Christian revival Spiritual awakening, a religious experience Awakening (1959 film)...
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History of religion in the United States (section First Great Awakening: emergence of evangelicalism)
leading to faith. The First Great Awakening led to changes in American colonial society. In New England, the Great Awakening was influential among many...
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mid-18th century, the First Great Awakening increased Baptist growth in both New England and the South. The Second Great Awakening in the South in the early...
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Quakers. Unlike the Second Great Awakening that began about 1800 and which reached out to non-believers, the First Great Awakening focused on people who were...
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The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) Thomas S. Kidd, The Great Awakening: The Roots...
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Michael Koulianos (section The Third Great Awakening)
him that the Third Great Awakening was beginning in America, precisely at the "Azusa Now" gathering. The "Azusa Now" was a great prayer rally that took...
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Restorationism (section First Great Awakening)
unrelated Restorationist groups which were formed during the eras of the Great Awakenings, such as the Christadelphians (Greek: 'Brothers of Christ'), Swedenborgians...
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Second Advent. His study of the Daniel 8 prophecy during the Second Great Awakening led him to conclude that Daniel's "cleansing of the sanctuary" was...
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The Awakening may refer to: Awakening (Finnish religious movement), a Lutheran movement in Finland Great Awakening, several periods of Anglo-American Christian...
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Holiness movement (section Second Great Awakening)
multi-denominational movement over time and was furthered by the Second Great Awakening which energized churches of all stripes, the bulk of Holiness movement...
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Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (category Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees)
to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in...
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Evangelicalism (section Great Britain)
Methodists were at the root of sparking this new movement during the First Great Awakening. Today, evangelicals are found across many Protestant branches, as...
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doctrinal differences, shaping them into a more coherent whole." The Great Awakening ignited controversy within Protestant churches between Old Lights and...
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services. The stress on personal piety opened the way for the First Great Awakening, which pulled people away from the established church. By the 1760s...
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services. The stress on personal piety opened the way for the First Great Awakening, which pulled people away from the established church. A group which...
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1840s) Great Awakenings, which led to an enormous growth in Christian congregations -- from 10% of Americans being members before the Awakenings, to 80%...
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Christianity in the 18th century is marked by the First Great Awakening in the Americas, along with the expansion of the Spanish and Portuguese empires...
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rates. The Second Great Awakening (1790-1840s) was the second great religious revival in America. Unlike the First Great Awakening of the 18th century...
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Sarah Edwards (missionary) (section Great Awakening)
formation of the New Light. She was a model of spirituality during the Great Awakening of the early 18th century. Her experiences of religious ecstasy were...
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Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film based on the 1973 non-fiction book of the same name. Directed by Penny Marshall, it was written for...
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