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19 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pus.9869
- isbn: 9782868205513
- eisbn: 9791034404803
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Christian Auer, « 12. Cambuslang, 1742 », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.9869
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In the early 1740s a wave of evangelicalism swept across parts of Scotland. The most noted event took place at Cambuslang in Lanarkshire in 1742 when at a summer communion William McCulloch, the minister of Cambuslang, and George Whitefield, an English Methodist itinerant minister, preached to 30,000 people. The highly emotional scenes of mass conversions that took place in Cambuslang in 1742 were to become common in the following decades. Michael Lynch has used the terms of “mass hysteria” t...