... Calvinist orthodoxy, which was the main religion that branched off into other sections before the Great Awakening, it divided the religious community internally, into "old lights" and "new lights", those opposed and those supportive of the Great Awakening; caused primarily by a decline in worship attendance, and Enlightenment rationalism. Due to conciliations with the Congregational Church, such as the ... the Awakening, encouraging missionary work and centers of high learning such as Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth. The "old lights" eventually became new members of Anglicans an...

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