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Article: The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America.(Book review)
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The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America. By Thomas S. Kidd. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. xx + 394 pp. $35.00 cloth.
Was there a Great Awakening? Historians of colonial American religion have debated this question for more than twenty-five years, since Jon Butler recommended, in his controversial article "Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening as Interpretative Fiction," that the term "Great Awakening" be abandoned because it misrepresents not only the extent of the revivals but also their explanatory power (Journal of American History 69:2 [September 1982]: 322). As the title of Thomas Kidd's ...