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The Holy Fairs

Holy Fairs – Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period

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  • Keith Watkins

This article reviews the book The Holy Fairs, which explains how certain festivals, such as Cambuslang in Scotland and Cane Ridge and the camp meetings in the United States, became the occasions for significant revivals. The book indicates how these communion gatherings continued the pre-Reformation popular piety of Corpus Christi in a new guise that was acceptable in the context of Reformed religion.

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