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 rise of private baptisms during the first half of the eighteenth century was one of several important ecclesiastical reforms through which ministers and lay people worked to align church affiliation practices with the imperatives of family formation.