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

At the height of the Boston revival, how could one discern whether another person had been possessed by the Holy Spirit or by Satan? For sympathetic observers like Joseph Pitkin, there was only one way to know for certain: watch their bodies, listen to their words.