The Great Awakening was named this because it awakened people from the dark. It was a religious movement that awakened the many people that had turned away from religion.
The First Great Awakening was lead by Jonathon Edwards in the 1730's and 1740's and impacted both sides of the Atlantic and involved a move away from ritual and doctrine as central to the religious...
Discourage church membership and promote a more centered, individualized religious experience.
Which eventually resulted in the sectional divisions between the three major denominations that...