Analysis Of Robert D. Rossel's The Great Awakening

Robert D. Rossel’s “The Great Awakening; An historical analysis” categorized the Awakening as a social change. That the Great Awakening changed the religious, economic, and political movements through social change. The revival was made possible by the new institutional and ideological beliefs allowing for the establishment of the religious movement and the impact it had on the political and economic change. He believes that the Great Awakening was caused by the strain in New England causing for a reaction of social and emotional change. This movement was not to restore the old ways and traditions, but to create new traditions and ways to change the view of religion. The movement was a social change that allowed for the religious exploration by the colonists to follow their own beliefs and experiment in religion. The social change allowed for political system in colonists to form and religions to spread. The creation of the Great Awakening created the “spirit” of the colonies. Motivation and tolerance allowed for the movement to grow and spread
That the Great Awakening has gained its importance, because others felt that since it was a huge social change. It was the primary cause for the change in the colonies and the “key to the American Revolution”. The title of the Great Awakening takes away from the importance of the movement and what it exactly changed in the colonies. The title was given by a historian and therefore that is how it gained such an importance in history. The historians also always give the same reasons for the importance of the movement. Along with the fact that there are mixed time frames for the Great Awakening. Therefore, this movement cannot be marked if the information on it is not all the same and that it does not embody all of the change and impact (Bulter,