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 origin of the “many unhappy Divisions and Contentions” that plagued Westborough and scores of other towns throughout New England lay in the peculiarly mobile nature of the Whitefieldian revivals.