Great Awakening

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The Great Awakening was a series of 18th-century Protestant revival movements in the American colonies that emphasized personal faith, emotional preaching, and a break from established religious authorities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Protestant movement
historical event
religious revival movement
religious revival movement
characteristic camp meetings and revivals
itinerant preaching
country Thirteen Colonies
denominationAffected Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicans

Baptists
Congregationalism
surface form: Congregationalists

Methodism
surface form: Methodists

Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterians
doctrineEmphasized individual salvation
new birth
personal relationship with God
endTime 1740s
followedBy Second Great Awakening
hasPart Great Awakening self-linksurface differs
surface form: First Great Awakening
influenced Evangelicalism
surface form: American Evangelicalism

American Revolutionary era
surface form: American Revolution

democratic ideals in America
religious pluralism in the United States
separation of church and state in the United States
influencedBy Evangelicalism
Pietism
Puritanism
keyPerson George Whitefield
Gilbert Tennent
John Wesley
Jonathan Edwards
Samuel Davies
language English
locatedInTime 1730s
1740s
18th century
mainRegion British America
surface form: British American colonies
opposedTo established church authority
formalism in religion
religiousFocus conversion experience
emotional preaching
personal faith
revivalism
religiousTradition Protestantism
resultedIn division between Old Lights and New Lights
founding of new colleges in the American colonies
greater lay participation in religion
growth of Baptist churches in America
growth of Methodist movement in America
increased missionary activity
startTime 1730s

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Evangelicalism developedSignificantlyIn Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards movement Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
American Protestantism influencedBy Great Awakening
Half-Way Covenant controversy relatedTo Great Awakening
Protestant Christianity hasHistoricalEvent Great Awakening
this entity surface form: Great Awakenings
Colonial America notableEvent Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
American Enlightenment relatedConcept Great Awakening
New England clergy involvedIn Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Great Awakening hasPart Great Awakening self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God movementContext Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections influencedBy Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections historicalContext Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening in New England
George Whitefield movement Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Evangelical churches historicalRoots Great Awakening
Sarah Pierpont Edwards movement Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Journal of John Wesley associatedWith Great Awakening
Samuel Davies movement Great Awakening
Samuel Davies participatedIn Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Esther Edwards Burr movement Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Gilbert Tennent movement Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Journals of George Whitefield about Great Awakening
Journals of George Whitefield timePeriodCovered Great Awakening
this entity surface form: Great Awakening era
Bethesda Orphanage in Georgia associatedWith Great Awakening
subject surface form: Bethesda Orphanage
Elizabeth James associatedWith Great Awakening
Elizabeth James spouseMovement Great Awakening
Calvinist Methodism partOf Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Baptist movement in America participatedIn Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony religiousMovementAssociated Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening
Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony associatedEvent Great Awakening
this entity surface form: First Great Awakening revivals of the 1740s
The Unraveling hasTrack Great Awakening