Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America

This definitive, two-volume encyclopedia is the first academic reference work devoted specifically to religious revivals in North America. Incorporating the work of 120 scholars, the first volume contains an A-Z set of 228 articles touching on people (e.g., Billy Graham, Aimee Semple McPherson, Francisco Olazabal, etc.), revival events (the Great Awakening, Cane Ridge, the Azusa Street Revival), religious denominations or groups associated with revivals (Methodists, Pentecostals, Primitive Baptists), revival practices (the altar call, bodily manifestations, preaching, praying, speaking in tongues), and themes in revivals (confession of sins, ecstasy, eschatology, foreign missions, material culture, money and revivals). The second volume includes a documentary history of religious revivals from 1527 to 2005, with editorial introductions and selected passages from 121 primary texts--some published here for the first time--and a general bibliography of about 5000 books, articles, and dissertations.

Michael McClymond is the Clarence Louis and Helen Irene Steber Professor of Theological Studies at St. Louis University. He is the author ofEncounters With God: An Approach to the Theology of Jonathan Edwards (1998) andFamiliar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth (2004), and is editor ofEmbodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism(2004), co-editor (with David Noel Freedman) ofThe Rivers of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammed as Religious Founders (2001) and co-editor (with Lamin Sanneh) of theBlackwell Companion to World Christianity (2008).