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

once-godly walkers turned “Strict” Congregationalists and Separate Baptists, Anglicans and “Orminians,” “Shaking-quakers” and Sandemanians, “new dispensationists” and “Nothingarians,” no controversy seemed too minor and no debate over the authenticity of their experimental religion non necessariis.