Triumph of the Laity : Scots-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1625-1760.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westerkamp, Marilyn J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revivals--Middle Atlantic States--History--17th century.

Revivals.

Revivals--Middle Atlantic States--History--18th century.

Great Awakening.

Scots-Irish--Middle Atlantic States--History--17th century.

Scots-Irish.

Presbyterian Church--Middle Atlantic States--History--17th century.

Presbyterian Church.

Scots-Irish--Middle American States--History--18th century.

Presbyterian Church--Middle Atlantic States--History--18th century.

Church history.

History.

Middle Atlantic States--Church history.

Middle Atlantic States.

Middle Atlantic States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

ix, 266 pages : maps. ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [1988]

Summary:

The Great Awakening of the 1740s was a religious revival of dramatic scope and violence that swept through the mid-Atlantic colonies, transforming 18th-century American society. The origins of the Awakening, however, argues Marilyn J. Westerkamp in this important revisionist study, were far removed from America in time and place. Examining the revivalist movement in Scotland, Ireland, and the middle colonies over a 135-year period, Westerkamp shows that the Awakening had its roots in Scots-Irish revivalism and travelled with Scots-Irish emigrants to the North American colonies. Hardly the spiritual innovation that it is sometimes represented to be, the Awakening was thus but one development in a longstanding revivalist tradition. Westerkamp's findings, drawn from previously neglected primary sources in the U.S., Ireland, and Scotland, will profoundly affect the direction of all future scholarship of the revivalist tradition.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 241-257.

ISBN:

0195044010

OCLC:

17549319