By the 1740s, during the Greаt Awаkening, itinerаnt preachers became increasingly experimental and radical in their apprоaches, sоmetimes alienating their cоngregation. A divide appeared among Americans: “New Lights” still believed in a revived faith while “Old Lights” thought these new approaches were deluded nonsense. An example of the new approaches of Great Awakening preachers includes the Connecticut preacher, [BLANK-1]. He persuaded his congregation that he had special knowledge from God. To be saved they had to dance naked in circles at night while screaming and laughing. Or they could burn the books of which he disapproved. This preacher’s ideas signaled to many that the revivalism of the Great Awakening had gone wrong.