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Vitally fresh . . . an impressive book. The sophistication of the theoretical and historiographical introduction promises the reader that historical inquiry and interpretation of the first order await. It is a thrilling study."--Samuel S. Hill, University of Florida

The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans. These revivals gave rise to the practice of itinerancy in which ministers and laypeople left their own communities to preach across the countryside. In Contested Boundaries, Timothy D. Hall argues that the Awakening was largely defined by the ensuing debate over itinerancy. Drawing on recent schola...