“The First Great Awakening was a major series of Christian evangelical revivals in the American colonies that occurred primarily during the 1730s and 1740s.”

The Great Awakening swept the English-speaking world, as religious energy vibrated between England, Wales, Scotland and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. … In America, the Awakening signaled the advent of an encompassing evangelicalism--the belief that the essence of religious experience was the "new birth," inspired by the preaching of the Word.

The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in the American colonies in which people experienced a “new Birth” … This religious fervor, which started in New England before spreading to the Middle Colonies and Virginia in the 1740s and 1750s, manifested itself in scenes of mass conversion, often accompanied by communal weeping and spontaneous singing.

The Great Awakening was the most profound social, cultural, and religious upheaval in the North American British colonies prior to the American Revolution. … The most intense phase of these evangelical Christian revivals transpired in New England and the Middle Colonies in the early 1740s, but revivals associated with the Great Awakening began in the 1730s and continued through the American Revolution and beyond.

Most twentieth-century Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740s. … Between 1740 and 1745 literally thousands were converted. From New England to the southern colonies, people of all ages and all ranks of society underwent the New Birth.

The first "Great Awakening" took hold of all British colonies in North America in the 1730s-1750s and developed contemporaneously with the Enlightenment movement, which had a significant impact on all aspects of life in the colonies, influencing religion, politics and ideology.

The Great Awakening refers to a series of religious revivals that occurred in the American colonies during the mid-eighteenth century, beginning around the 1730s. … Some claim there were three: the first, and most famous, from the 1730s through about 1743;

"The Great Awakening was the religious revival that swept through the American colonies between 1739 and 1742,"

This book is a history of an astounding transatlantic phenomenon, a popular evangelical revival known in America as the first Great Awakening (1735-1745). … THE GEOGRAPHY of the “great awakenings” in colonial America during the 1730s and 1740s follows a checkerboard pattern.

The Great Awakening, the most important event in American religion during the eighteenth century, was a series of emotional religious revivals that spread across the American colonies in the late 1730s and 1740s.

In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture.

The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans. … This book expands our understanding of evangelical itinerancy in the 1740s by viewing it within the context of Britain’s expanding commercial empire.

George Whitefield’s preaching tour of 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thriving religious culture. … The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, as men and women groped toward a restructured religious order.

As George Whitefield, England’s John Wesley, and other evangelical ministers read Edwards’ narrative, they realized they were part of a series of religious revivals that began in the colonies and spanned the Atlantic. They were in the middle of what historians came to call “The Great Awakening.” … By the late 1740s, the New England revivals had cooled, but the Great Awakening’s effects were widespread and long-lasting as the fervor continued to spread to the southern colonies in the ensuing decades.

The**First Great Awakening**(sometimes**Great Awakening**) or the**Evangelical Revival**was a series of[Christian revivals](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_revival)that swept[Britain](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland)and its[thirteen North American colonies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies)in the 1730s and 1740s.

What historians call “the first Great Awakening” can best be described as a revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.

The First Great Awakening was a significant religious revival that took place in the American colonies between 1739 and 1742, marked by a surge in emotional preaching and widespread conversions.

The First Great Awakening, sometimes called the Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.

The First Great Awakening, sometimes called the Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.

GREAT AWAKENING, the name given to a remarkable religious revival centring in New England in 1740–1743, but covering all the American colonies in 1740–1750.

Nathan Cole and his wife were among the thousands who thrilled to the message of George Whitefield at the high-water mark of America’s Great Awakening. … Then, in the mid-1730s, the Northampton congregation that Edwards had inherited from his grandfather was deeply stirred by Edwards’ dramatic preaching on justification by faith. … Whitefield preached more than fifteen thousand sermons in his thirty-five-year career as an itinerant, but none were more effective than in 1740.

The Great Awakening was the first significant religious revitalization in which many American slaves participated. The movement occurred in both England and the American colonies. … In the late 1730s the Great Awakening was more fully realized through the Church of England's George Whitefield (1714–1770) and Congregational minister Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758).

**[Religion in Eighteenth-Century America](rel02.html)**challenges the notion that religion was in decline during this period concentrating on the nation's first major religious revival, the Great Awakening, 1740-45;

The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s.

The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775.

This phrase, which is received as a cliché when heard by many today, defined a period in colonial history that has been labeled the “First Great Awakening.” … Fiery and passionate leaders like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield revitalized religion in the colonies and provided the future revolutionary generation with a taste of greater equality and self-determination.

The Great Awakening was a religious revival that occurred in the British American colonies, mainly from about 1720 to the 1740s.

A powerful religious revival known as the Great Awakening occurred in the British North American colonies from the 1720s to the 1740s. … The Great Awakening was an evangelical movement that emphasized the importance of personal conversion.

The First Great Awakening began in the 1730s and lasted to about 1740, though pockets of revivalism had occurred in years prior, especially amongst the ministry of Solomon Stoddard, Jonathan Edwards's grandfather.

1734 Jonathan Edwards in Northampton, MA … 1736–1740s New Jersey Awakening under the Tennents … 1739 Whitefield first preaches in Philadelphia

1734 Jonathan Edwards in Northampton, MA … 1736–1740s New Jersey Awakening under the Tennents … 1739 Whitefield first preaches in Philadelphia

The name given to a remarkable religious revival centring in New England in 1740-1743, but covering all the American colonies in 1740-1750.