Question

This movement placed an emphases on individual religious experience rather than religious experience through church doctrine.

Answer 1

The Great Awakening was a religious movement that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. Some of the major ideas of the movement were:

• All people are born sinners
• All people can have a direct and emotional connection with God
• Religion shouldn’t be formal and institutionalized, but rather casual and personal