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

Pitkin’s analysis of the dual possession of Martha Robinson stands at the intersection of the three most controversial innovations of the revivals: exercised bodies, biblical impulses, and revelatory visions of the Book of Life.