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

godly walkers listed and catalogued; they resolved and covenanted. They infused their correspondence with pious counsel and marked religious time in annotated almanacs. Their prayer bills were relentlessly formulaic, as were most church admission testimonies composed between 1700 and 1740.