The Romance of American Methodism
Author | : Paul Neff Garber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Methodism |
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Author | : Paul Neff Garber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Methodism |
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Author | : George A. Singleton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : William Warren Sweet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : Richard Pyke |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2016-06-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532600291 |
"The author of this book has accomplished a difficult and delicate task. He has condensed within a comparatively brief record the story of an historic era in Methodism, and he has done this without sacrificing any essential element of the story." -- From the foreword
Author | : Frederick A. Norwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Henry C. Jennings |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : John H. Wigger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998-02-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195355822 |
Following the Revolutionary War, American Methodism grew at an astonishing rate, rising from fewer than 1000 members in 1770 to over 250,000 by 1820. In Taking Heaven by Storm, John H. Wigger seeks to explain this remarkable expansion, offering a provocative reassessment of the role of popular religion in American life. Early Methodism was neither bland nor predictable; rather, it was a volatile and innovative movement, both driven and constrained by the hopes and fears of the ordinary Americans who constituted its core. Methodism's style, tone, and agenda worked their way deep into the fabric of American life, Wigger argues, influencing all other mass religious movements that would follow, as well as many facets of American life not directly connected to the church. Wigger examines American Methodism from a variety of angles, focusing in turn on the circuit riders who relentlessly pushed the Methodist movement forward, the critical role of women and African Americans within the movement, the enthusiastic nature of Methodist worship, and the unique community structure of early American Methodism. Under Methodism's influence, American evangelism became far more enthusiastic, egalitarian, entrepreneurial, and lay oriented--characteristics that continue to shape and define popular religion today.
Author | : Anna M. Lawrence |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2011-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812204174 |
Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dissenting religious group whose ideas about sexuality, marriage, and family were very different from those of their contemporaries. Focusing on the Methodist notion of family that cut across biological ties, One Family Under God speaks to historical debates over the meaning of family and how the nuclear family model developed over the eighteenth century. Historian Anna M. Lawrence demonstrates that Methodists adopted flexible definitions of affection and allegiance and emphasized extended communal associations that enabled them to incorporate people outside the traditional boundaries of family. They used the language of romantic, ecstatic love to describe their religious feelings and the language of the nuclear family to describe their bonds to one another. In this way, early Methodism provides a useful lens for exploring eighteenth-century modes of family, love, and authority, as Methodists grappled with the limits of familial and social authority in their extended religious family. Methodists also married and formed conjugal families within this larger spiritual framework. Evangelical modes of marriage called for careful, slow courtships, and often marriages happened later in life and produced fewer children. Religious views of the family offered alternatives to traditional coupling and marriage—through celibacy, spiritual service, and the idea of finding one's true spiritual match, which both challenged the role of parental authority within marriage-making and accelerated the turn within the larger society toward romantic marriage. By examining the language and practice of evangelical sexuality and family, One Family Under God highlights how the Methodist movement in the eighteenth century was central to the rise of romantic marriage and the formation of the modern family.
Author | : Moses Lewis Scudder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Methodist Church |
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Author | : Mrs. Arthur Barneveld Bibbins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Methodists |
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