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Book Review


Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism. Ed. by Michael J. McClymond. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xvi, 346 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8018-7807-1.)
"The noise was like the roar of Niagara," wrote James Finley, later a Methodist circuit rider, when he saw the spectacle of five hundred men and women swept up in revival ecstasy. One man wrote a friend on August 7, 1801, that "religion has gotten to such a state here that 10,000 people camp out on the ground and continue praising God, day and night." Peter Cartwright, a convert to the enthusiasm, remembered being "taken under by a warm song" and seized by what some saw as "dancing at a distance." . . .
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