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

Viewed from the vantage point of more than two centuries of evangelical revivalism, Mayhew’s language appears conventional, but his letter was among the first to describe New England’s scattered great awakenings as an interconnected phenomenon—“a Revival of Religion”—that transcended locality.