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  1. The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history. Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century.

  2. Mar 7, 2018 · The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being...

  3. Mar 25, 2024 · Great Awakening, religious revival in the British American colonies between about 1720 and the 1740s. It was part of the religious ferment that swept western Europe in the latter part of the 17th century and early 18th century. Learn more about the Great Awakening.

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  4. Overview. The Great Awakening was an outburst of Protestant Revivalism in the eighteenth century. The beliefs of the New Lights of the First Great Awakening competed with the more conservative religion of the first colonists, who were known as Old Lights.

  5. Apr 27, 2023 · Key Figures and Events. . The Great Awakening in America, also known as Evangelist Revival, had tremendous social and political results in the 30s and 40s. Read a summary including facts, causes, affects, and influential leaders.

  6. The Great Awakening caused a split between those who followed the evangelical message (the “New Lights”) and those who rejected it (the “Old Lights”). The elite ministers in British America were firmly Old Lights, and they censured the new revivalism as chaos. Indeed, the revivals did sometimes lead to excess.

  7. Introduction. The Great Awakening was the most profound social, cultural, and religious upheaval in the North American British colonies prior to the American Revolution. The most intense phase of these evangelical Christian revivals transpired in New England and the Middle Colonies in the early 1740s, but revivals associated with the Great ...

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