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

Lay men and women in the towns of the Connecticut Valley increasingly arrived at the belief that their religious lives moved in unexpected, disorderly, spasmodic shifts that conformed only to God’s surprising plan for his faithful saints.