Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 367 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691009589
,
0691092982
,
1400823595
,
1400814022
,
9780691009582
,
9780691092980
,
9781400823598
,
9781400814022
Content:
The Methodists and Revolutionary America is the first in-depth narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the most significant popular movements in American history. Placing Methodism's rise in the ideological context of the American Revolution and the complex social setting of the greater Middle Atlantic where it was first introduced, Dee Andrews argues that this new religion provided an alternative to the exclusionary politics of Revolutionary America. With its call to missionary preaching, its enthusiastic revivals, and its prolific religious societies, Methodism competed with
Content:
Raising religious affections -- The Wesleyan connection -- The making of a methodist -- Evangelical sisters -- The African methodists -- Laboring men, artisans, and entrepreneurs -- Methodism politicized -- The great revival and beyond
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-349) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Andrews, Dee Methodists and revolutionary America, 1760-1800 Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2000
Language:
English
URL:
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