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    The Great Awakening A restructuring of religious doctrine, beliefs, and social practices during the 17th and 18th centuries in England, and in North America, infused with Calvinistic religious doctrine initiated the beginning of The Great Awakening. Following this further, according to Christine Leigh Heyrman, The First Great Awakening: Divining America,” a New Age of faith rose to counter the currents of the Age of Enlightenment. Ultimately reaffirming the view that being truly religious meant trusting

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    restructuring of religious doctrine, beliefs, and social practices during the 17th and 18th centuries in England, and in North America, infused with Calvinistic religious doctrine initiated the beginning of The Great Awakening. Following this further, according to Christine Leigh Heyrman, The First Great Awakening: Divining America,” a New Age of faith rose to counter the currents of the Age of Enlightenment. Ultimately reaffirming the view that being truly religious meant trusting the heart rather than the head

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    In the 1730s and 1740s, a religious movement known as the Great Awakening spread its influence throughout the colonies. Originating in New England with Reverend Jonathan Edwards, which soon led to George Whitefield to push the movement throughout the colonies, and eventually to Samson Occum, and Indian Minister who spread these ideals to his people. Prior to this movement, religion in the colonies had been decreasing, and oftentimes sermons were dreary, and were long intellectual speeches which

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    Tom Richey compares the First Great Awakening with the Second Great Awakening in his video. Both awakenings had an impact on religion. There are some similarities and differences between the First Great Awakening and the Second Great Awakening. The most obvious similarity between both of the awakenings was that they are considered religious revivals. The preaching style during both of the awakenings was more fire and brimstone, meaning the focus was sending a picture of Hell to their audience

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    The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment were two historical events that shaped the thoughts of people and religion in America. The most important factor in both of these events is the common theme of reason behind the movements. The Great Awakening began about the 1930's and reached its climax ten years later in 1740. What exactly was the Great Awakening? It was a wave of religion revivals sweeping through New England that increased conversions and church membership. The beginnings of the Great

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    The great awakening events were several stages of the religious life of the United States. We identify four stages which are characterized by a Protestant claim plus interest in the religion, higher members of the evangelical churches as well as religious movements. Notably, the great awakening to refer to different periods of great religious expansion in Protestant Christianity in the United States. One of the forerunners of the great awakening was his pioneering Edwards, but like all religious

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    Introduction The First Great Awakening was a religious revival that was associated with Jonathan Edwards an American evangelical preacher and Methodist evangelist George Whitfield. The revivals renewed interest in the Christian faith. During the revivals, it was believed that people experienced conversions, salvation, regeneration or spiritual rebirth. It was a time of restructuring and re-evaluating political social and religions ideas. The movement sparked the American Revolution with was

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    for American independence. Specifically, the Great Awakening and the French and Indian War contributed in different ways. The Great Awakening, a religious movement, helped promote change in the churches of America, while the French and Indian War united the colonies on a critical issue for the first time. Both the Great Awakening and the French and Indian War united the American people and took great steps towards American independence. The Great Awakening came about in the eighteenth century when

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    The Great Awakenings were periods of religious revival, increasing religious enthusiasm during the early 18th century and the late 20th century. Some may say that the Great Awakenings also caused enlightenment. However, there was a tremendous increase in religious participation, and influence in other reforms as well. Therefore, the Great Awakenings tremendously influenced the development of american society prior to the American Civil War. By the 18th century, there were concerns about the declining

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    Second Great Awakening The Second Great Awakening was an event that took place from the late 1790’s and continued on through the 1840’s and had a major impact on the youth during that time period. Here, I will discuss what exactly happened during the Second Great Awakening and how to affected America during this time, but I will also discuss two figures that were important to this movement, and what exactly they did that made them so important during this time. The Second Great Awakening was a movement

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