Religious revival movement which swept across much of the British Empire between the 1720s and 1750s and peaked in the thirteen colonies between 1738 and 1742. A reaction against the early 18th century's intellectual, rational, impersonal faith which dominated the educated ministry and the college faculties (which were primarily concerned with training young men for the ministry) and which emphasized reason and learning over the conversion experience, the Great Awakening expressed the common people's desire for an emotional, spiritual, personal religion based on the conversion experience. The Great Awakening is significant because while it produced divisions, it also stimulated debate; it created a shared experience for many across all the colonies; it re-emphasized the idea of everyone being equal before God; and it encouraged mass resistance to authority thereby laying the groundwork for revolution.
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