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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.
Edwards's congregation was involved in a revival later called the "Frontier Revivals" in the mid-1730s, though this was on the wane by 1737. [7] But as American religious historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom noted, the Great Awakening "was still to come, ushered in by the Grand Itinerant", [7] the British evangelist George Whitefield.
At the start of 1879, the Universalists in Georgia had a statewide rural presence of 10 churches with a total membership of 236. [1] In the summer of that same year, Rev. William Clayton Bowman attempted to establish an urban Universalist presence in Atlanta.
At the age of 13, Venable attended the 1915 revival of the KKK on top of Stone Mountain, alongside his uncle. [1] In 1963, Venable organized the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which competed with other rival national KKK factions. He would serve for 25 years as its Imperial Wizard. [2]
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The revival also inspired slaves to demand freedom. In 1800, out of African-American revival meetings in Virginia, a plan for slave rebellion was devised by Gabriel Prosser, although the rebellion was discovered and crushed before it started. [40]
While the original series, about the chaotic Wilkerson family from creator Linwood Boomer, aired from 2000–2006 on Fox, the revival will return for just four episodes and feature a new character ...