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Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Douglas L. Winiarski
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Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
This sweeping 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. George Whitefield's preaching tour of 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thriving religious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated by miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit--visions, bodily fits, and sudden conversions--countless New Englanders broke ranks with family, neighbors, and ministers who dismissed their religious experiences as delusive enthusiasm. These new converts, the progenitors of today's evangelical movement, bitterly assaulted the Congregational establishment.
The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, as men and women groped toward a restructured religious order. Conflict transformed inclusive parishes into exclusive networks of combative spiritual seekers. Then as now, evangelicalism emboldened ordinary people to question traditional authorities. Their challenge shattered whole communities.
Kundenbewertungen
dreams, trances, and visions, lived religion, Arminian controversies, New England Congregationalism, immortalism and spiritual wifery, popular religion in eighteenth-century New England, religious experience, First Great Awakening in New England, religious practice, biblical impulses, separate Baptists, godly walk, itinerant preaching, revivalism and separatism in New England, Antinomian controversies, perfectionist controversies, religion, family strategies, and the lifecourse, rise of American and transatlantic evangelicalism, relation of faith narratives, New London bonfires and book burning, conversion narratives, mapping religion in early America, Great Earthquake of 1727, post-puritan New England, spiritual autobiography, Shakers, sectarian communities, women and childbirth, evangelical Protestant awakening