Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America

This recent offering from the Greenwood Press is “the first academic reference work devoted explicitly and wholly to the topic of religious revival in the context of the USA and Canada”. It aims to provide an overview of an area that has previously been fragmented into studies of very specific movements and topics, and thereby to encourage the academic study of religious revivals by enabling comparison and synthesis. The introduction notes some of the difficulties of work in this area, and the tension between objectivity and personal experience of the subject, as well as documenting some recent trends in scholarship....