![]() | Sarah Osborn''s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America A colonial woman's riveting personal journal and correspondence opens a window on America's first-generation evangelicals A schoolteacher in Rhode Island, a wife, and a mother, Sarah Osborn led a remarkable revival in the 1760s that brought hundreds of people, including many slaves, to her house each week. Her extensive written record--encompassing issues ranging from the desire to be "born again" to a suspicion of capitalism--provides a unique vantage point from which to view the emergence of evangelicalism. Brekus sets Sarah Osborn's experience in the context of her revivalist era and expands our understanding of the birth of the evangelical movement--a movement that transformed Protestantism in the decades before the American Revolution. Catherine A. Brekus is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School. She lives in Auburndale, MA. |
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