| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Canada and the United States

Philip N. Mulder. A Controversial Spirit: Evangelical Awakenings in the South. (Religion in America.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 233. $45.00.

The mid-eighteenth-century revival known as the Great Awakening promoted an ecumenical spirit among evangelicals in New England and the Middle Colonies. Leaders such as George Whitefield insisted that the "one thing needful" was a genuine individual conversion experience, not adherence to doctrinal purity or ecclesiastical discipline. For a moment in the 1740s, New Light ministers and their lay followers embraced the belief that experimental Christianity and practical piety transcended sectarian differences. Thus, when Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist itinerants transported evangelicalism to the Chesapeake and the Lower South, they carried a common message: the necessity of the "New Birth." Moreover, their shared struggle as dissenters in a region where the Church of England was securely established further blurred denominational distinctions. . . .

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