<P> The Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s . An evangelical and revitalization movement , it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism . It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of deep personal revelation of their need of salvation by Jesus Christ . The Great Awakening pulled away from ritual , ceremony , sacramentalism , and hierarchy , and made Christianity intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual conviction and redemption , and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality . </P>
<P> The Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s . An evangelical and revitalization movement , it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism . It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of deep personal revelation of their need of salvation by Jesus Christ . The Great Awakening pulled away from ritual , ceremony , sacramentalism , and hierarchy , and made Christianity intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual conviction and redemption , and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality . </P>
where did the first great awakening take place
where did the first great awakening take place
Protestant Europe and British America
Protestant Europe and British America