founding of the american colonies and we re getting now into the 1700s. today, in this week, i m going to focus mostly on religion and the late control colonial period, and the coming of the great awakening in the 17 thirties and forties. and i know this has been on you all s mind since you have a paper on that coming up. so we are going to give some of the background to religion in the colonial period, and then the lead up to the great awakening, some overview of what s happening in the great awakening. and hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. you can see here on the screen we have an image of george whitfield, who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening, preaching in london. they re in their 17 thirties, 17 forties, he is the sensation of the age. but we ll talk more about him when we get there. first, i want to take a look at the background to what s happening in 18th century america with regard to religion. and we ve talked about some of this
background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, that ll set you up better for your papers. you can see here on the screen we have an image of george whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. he is the sensation of the age, but we ll talk more about him when we get there. first, i want to take a look at the background to what s happening in 18th century america with regard to religion. we ve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and religious commitment across the colonies. if you look first at the southern colonies from maryland down to georgia, mostly what we have is a formal commitment to the church of england. and the church of england, of course, is the national official church of england, of britain, and most of those colonies adopt what we would call
swept through the colonies. we ve been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and we re getting now into the 1700s. today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. and i know this has been on you all s minds since you have a paper coming up. we re going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, that ll set you up better for your papers. you can see here on the screen we have an image of george whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. he is the sensation of the age, but we ll talk more about him when we get there. first, i want to take a look at the background to what s happening in 18th century america with regard to religion. we ve talked about some of this alrea
founding of the american colonies, and we re getting now into the 1700s. today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. and i know this has been on you all s minds since you have a paper coming up. we re going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, that ll set you up better for your papers. you can see here on the screen we have an image of george whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. he is the sensation of the age, but we ll talk more about him when we get there. first, i want to take a look at the background to what s happening in 18th century america with regard to religion. we ve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and religious
we re going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, that ll set you up better for your papers. you can see here on the screen we have an image of george whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. he is the sensation of the age, but we ll talk more about him when we get there. first, i want to take a look at the background to what s happening in 18th century america with regard to religion. we ve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and religious commitment across the colonies. if you look first at the southern colonies from maryland down to georgia, mostly what we have is a formal commitment to the church of england. and the church of england, of course, is the national official church of england, of britain, and most of those colonie