The Great Awakening

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This paper examines how the Great Awakening can be defined as a period of religious revivalism during the mid-18th century in colonial America. It discusses how the Great Awakening was a period of religious persuasion and explosive emotion, which affected society's thoughts on religion and the individual's role in society.

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"Many historians describe the Great Awakening as an American, "Calvinist, religious revival in which converts acknowledged their sinfulness without expecting salvation." Yet, because much of Western Europe was imbued with the same type of religious emotionalism (which many texts refer to as "Quietism" ) at the time of the Great Awakening, and because the new American ideals for religion resembled European thinking, historians also agree that the Great Awakening was not an isolated, domestic phenomenon; rather, it was a component (maybe even the main component) contributing to a broader international movement."

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