The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals that took the colonies by storm during the 1730's and 1740's. ... The supporters of the Awakening pointed to the apparent degeneration of Puritan values to explain the need for revival (The Great Awakening, pgs. 1-9). ... Many graduates became revival preachers in the Great Awakening (Famous Americans, n.pg.). ... The Great Awakening also influenced the call to missions, especially to the Native Americans. ... And lastly, the Great Awakening sparked a since of freedom and human righ...

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THE GREAT AWAKENING With the decay of the Puritan clergy, in wake of the Salem Witch Trials, the main elements of religious zeal fell into decline. ... These preachers of The Great Awakening made Hell real and vivid, and taught of a vengeful God. The Great Awakening began in the middle colonies in the late 1730's and spread to New England and some areas in the south. ... As a result of The Great Awakening, many new beliefs arose in the eyes of the colonists. ... In conclusion, The Great Awakening was the largest religious revival in American history with tens of thousands g...

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The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was a turning point in the life of the American people. ... Although the name is not really what it sounds, the Great Awakening was not one continuous revival; rather it was several revivals in a variety of locations. The awakening altered the way people were educated by adding new universities, their identities, and also the way everyone thought of the authorities and how they began to question them. ... The Great Awakening in America during the 1730's and 1740's had tremendous results. ...

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This gave birth to a religious revival known as "The Great Awakening.... So the Great Awakening swept all colonies not New England. The Great Awakening occurred from circa 1730 to circa 1740. ... The Great Awakening sadly only lasted a short period of time. ... The Great Awakening however brought many people back to God. ...

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Jonathan Edwards was a very well educated man who went to Yale during his school years. He was very concerned with defining the nature of true religious experience. He wrote a sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." In his sermon, the sinners were the wicked unbelieving Israelites. ...

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My father is almost fifty-one years old and grew up in a time in this country when there was a great spiritual awakening and a sensitivity to the things that pertained to God and it seemed like with religion, it didn't matter what you believed there was a sacredness to it. ... We have come to time now that we are poised for another great season of awakening and a mighty move of the spirit. This is the man that taught me how to believe in the time when he grew up with the spiritual awakening. ...

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"You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince...and yet, tis nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment tis to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to Hell the last night...that you were suffered to awake...there is noth...

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In my research paper I"m going to talk about the history of my religion. My religion is A.M.E Zion, which is African Methodist Episcopal Zion. I had been in A.M.E. since I was born. Philip Embury was born in 1728 at Ballingrane, the son of parents who had fled the Palatinate around 1709 when Louis...

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Urban's speech seemed to instill religious awakening into those it reached, and of course the poor man's dreams of a better life was enough to spark their ambition for joining the crusading army. ...

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The play "The Summoning of Everyman" is a morality play. In the entire play, the characters personify moral abstracts and qualities. The author focuses on the most crucial attributes of life such as friendship, love, life, death and fidelity to a supreme being. The characters play a significant rol...

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Mormon Religion, What it is and why it's a cult? Religion has become a point of persecution for many people. To others it is a test of strength and faith. Nevertheless, among this persecution from people with no faith, some religions are persecuted by others in the Christian community. One of t...

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My brothers and sisters, our society today has become corrupted by the lack of people attending church. People have started to question us and trying to present to us with liberal heathen ideas. They believe that the religion is no longer important. Our ancestors would be turning over in their graves right now if they were listening to the ideas that these people are presenting to us. We must learn to work together to let the light of God shine through! ...

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