"Pedlar in Divinity" : : George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770 / / Frank Lambert.

A pioneer in the commercialization of religion, George Whitefield (1714-1770) is seen by many as the most powerful leader of the Great Awakening in America: through his passionate ministry he united local religious revivals into a national movement before there was a nation. An itinerant British pre...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Eighteenth-Century Transformations: Whitefield's New Birth and the Consumer Revolution
  • Chapter 2. Whitefield's Adaptation of Commercial Strategies
  • Chapter 3. Creating an Intercolonial Revival
  • Chapter 4. Interpreting the New Birth: Audience Response
  • Chapter 5. Debating the Great Awakening in a Religious Public Sphere
  • Chapter 6. The Americanization of Whitefield
  • Epilogue. Legacies
  • Index