Dominating Calvinist orthodoxy, which was the main religion that branched off into other sections before the Great Awakening, it divided the religious community internally, into "old lights" and "new lights", those opposed and those supportive of the Great Awakening; caused primarily by a decline in worship attendance, and Enlightenment rationalism. ... Though the Great Awakening subsided after the 1740's, the religious devotion that spread from it, that were caused by declines in worship attendance and Enlightenment rationalism, did not entirely die down, as well as the separations of ...

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