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Watercolor representing the Second Great Awakening in 1839. The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history.Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century.
The First Great Awakening, sometimes 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 revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion.
The Azusa Street Revival was a historic series of revival meetings that took place in Los Angeles, California. [1] It was led by William J. Seymour , an African-American preacher . The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915.
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements.
The Revival of 1800, also known as the Red River Revival, was a series of evangelical Christian meetings which began in Logan County, Kentucky. These ignited the subsequent events and influenced several of the leaders of the Second Great Awakening .
In the end, it is impossible to say empirically what happened at Asbury College in 1970, or in the many great revivals throughout Western history. Or what will underlie any revival to come.
Paul Prather: The awakening began with an ordinary, regularly scheduled 10 a.m. chapel service on Feb. 8, but people didn’t leave. They felt what they interpreted as an unusually palpable ...
Mel Larson (1950). "TASTING REVIVAL — at Los Angeles". Revival In Our Time: The Story of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Campaigns including Six of his Sermons. Van Kampen Press. pp. 11– 27. Uta Andrea Balbier (Spring 2009). "Billy Graham's Crusades In the 1950s: Neo-Evangelicalism Between Civil Religion, Media, and Consumerism" (PDF).