Revival: The Return of the Primitive (2001)

William Penn’s classic 1696 work, Primitive Christianity Revived, describes how the ways of the early Christian church as established by Jesus and his apostles had been restored “in the Faith and...

The Religious Society of Friends arose as a passionate missionary movement in the 1650s and suffered through decades of persecution before gaining legal toleration in 1689. The new religious sect...

In this influential work of anthropology, Frederick Morgan Davenport explores the origins and functions of religious revivals, and the ways in which they reflect broader trends in mental and social...