The Great Awakening's best description is <em>a time of revival of Christianity in America</em>.
The Great Awakening provided charismatic Christian preachers the opportunity to challenge irreligious secularism that was rearing its ugly head as a result of the Age of Enlightenment or Reason from Europe.
This Christian revival restored Americans to their Christian upbringing and stopped the dominance of secularism, which encouraged reliance on scientific and logical thought processes.
Thus, the Great Awakening in the 1730's was necessary to restore Christianity to the front burner of American culture.
