Andrew Kloes interprets his subject as a big-tent movement of theologians, pastors and laypeople who shared the conviction that German Protestantism needed to be collectively ‘awakened’ after the Enlightenment just as they believed that each soul needed to be individually converted. According to Kloes, the central tension of the Awakening was that it ‘aspired to be orthodox, even as it was intrinsically modern’ (p. 9). In seeing the Awakening as modern, Kloes pushes back against the interpretation of James Sheehan and other scholars who maintained that conservative Protestants in early nineteenth-century Germany repudiated modernity in every form. Because Kloes defines the Awakening primarily by its opposition to Enlightenment rationalism, he groups figures as diverse as the ‘confessional’ Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg and the ‘mediating’ Richard Rothe under the banner of ‘Awakened’. While such a broad definition is justified by the theological networks that existed in the early nineteenth century and explains much of the success of the movement, it leads to a lack of clarity in explicating the movement's theology. Although Kloes does not advance a clear thesis, he nevertheless makes three significant contributions. First, he comprehensively surveys German-language scholarship on the Awakening for an English audience. Second, along with David L. Ellis's Politics and piety: the Protestant awakening in Prussia, 1816–1856 (Leiden 2017), Kloes shows that the Awakening cannot simply be characterised by theology and personal piety, but was a major social and political force. Taken together, these two contributions result in a third: the revelation of considerable similarities between the Awakening in Germany and Evangelical movements in Britain and the United States. While the connections between continental Pietism and Anglo-American Evangelicalism are well established in the eighteenth century, the same cannot be said for the nineteenth century. Hopefully, Kloes's book will help to remedy this problem by enabling further transatlantic scholarship. For those who do not specialise in modern Germany, Kloes offers an account of how popular narratives about the Christian Church's decline and progress had their origins in this period of German religious history.