Taking Heaven by Storm

Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America

Szerző: John H. Wigger

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Illinois Press

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In 1770 there were fewer than 1,000 Methodists in America. Fifty years later, the church counted mor...

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Szerző

John H. Wigger

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2001

oldal

288

EAN

9780252069949

ISBN

0252069943

Enbook ID

04868987

Kiadó

University of Illinois Press

Súly

467

Méretek

152 x 229 x 22

Teljes leírás

In 1770 there were fewer than 1,000 Methodists in America. Fifty years later, the church counted more than 250,000 adherents. Identifying Methodism as America's most significant large-scale popular religious movement of the antebellum period, John H. Wigger reveals what made Methodism so attractive to post-revolutionary America. "Taking Heaven by Storm" shows how Methodism fed into popular religious enthusiasm as well as the social and economic ambitions of the "middling people on the make" - skilled artisans, shopkeepers, small planters, petty merchants - who constituted its core. Wigger describes how the movement expanded its reach and fostered communal intimacy and "intemperate zeal" by means of an efficient system of itinerant and local preachers, class meetings, love feasts, quarterly meetings, and camp meetings. He also examines the important role of African Americans and women in early American Methodism and explains how the movement's willingness to accept impressions, dreams, and visions as evidence of the work and call of God circumvented conventional assumptions about education, social standing, gender, and race. A pivotal text on the role of religion in American life, "Taking Heaven by Storm" shows how the enthusiastic, egalitarian, entrepreneurial, lay-oriented spirit of early American Methodism continues to shape popular religion today.

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