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

Established or Separate, peaceable or fractious, led by college-educated ministers or unlettered elders, Congregational or Presbyterian in polity, moralistic or tinctured with enthusiasm—all of them were on some level, or at least for some faction of earnest Christians, legitimate.