The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism: Religious Revivalism in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1760, by Thomas J. Little, Columbia, South Carolina: The University of South Carolina Press, 2013, xv + 280 pp. ISBN 978-1 61117 274 4, US$49.95 (hardback); ISBN 978 1 61117 275 1, US$49.95 (e-book)

With a promising farewell, George Whitefield assured his Charleston audience in 1740, ‘the fields here … are white, ready to harvest’ (p. 143). In The Origins of Southern Evangelicalism, Thomas J. ...