Revivals are outbursts of religious enthusiasm in which there are
numerous conversions. In this book the phenomenon of revival is set
in its broad historical and historiographical context. David
Bebbington provides detailed case-studies of awakenings that took
place between 1841 and 1880 in Britain, North America and
Australia, showing that the distinctive features of particular
revivals were the result less of national differences than of
denominational variations. These revivals occurred in many places
across the globe, but revealed the shared characteristics of
evangelical Protestantism. Bebbington explores the preconditions of
revival, giving attention to the cultural setting of each episode
as well as the form of piety displayed by the participants. No
single cause can be assigned to the awakenings, but one of the
chief factors behind them was occupational structure and striking
instances of death were often a precipitant. Ideas were far more
involved in these events than historians have normally supposed, so
that the case-studies demonstrate some of the main patterns in
religious thought at a popular level during the Victorian period.
Laymen and women played a disproportionate part in their promotion
and converts were usually drawn in large numbers from the young.
There was a trend over time away from traditional spontaneity
towards more organised methods sometimes entailing
interdenominational co-operation.
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