Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

a period of careful preparation and mounting interest followed by peaks of intensive itinerant preaching, attacks on the ideal of the godly walk, protracted revival meetings, surges in church membership, and the exportation of revival intelligence to distant communities.