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

His carefully chosen words capitalized on a strikingly modern religious sensibility. They marked the eclipse of the parish-based world of the early eighteenth century and the ascendance of a combative, voluntaristic, seeker-driven culture.