This study of the Great Revival is based on meticulous and critical research. Boles seeks to understand the theology of the preachers, their methods of arousing an audience to emotional frenzy, and the effets of the revival on the Southern mind.
~Clement Eaton, American Historical Review
An excellent survey of religion and its significance in the first eighty-five years of Kentucky's history.
~Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
The heart of the book consists of ten beautifully written chapters on each phase and aspect of revivalism from theology and worship to denominational relations, hymnology, and political and economic thought.
~Robert M. Calhoun, West Virginia History
This book deserves attention for both its substance and its methodology.
~Samuel S. Hill, Jr.
Shows in the landmark study that the effect of the Revival has persisted in the religious individualism of contemporary conservative religious approaches to salvation.
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