Victorian Religious Revivals: Culture and Piety in Local and Global Contexts

by David W. Bebbington

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199575487
• ISBN13: 9780199575480
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"