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

The structure of lay devotional writings drew inspiration from financial records. The most common forms of personal religious writings that survive between 1680 and 1740 were not introspective journals; they were rather rules, covenants, and resolutions.