Author: Joseph WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891
Author: Joseph WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Date index
Author: Taking Heaven by Storm
Author: John H. WiggerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069949
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture
Author: Nathan O. HatchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Collected works on the history of Methodism in America.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Place index
Author: National Register of Microform Masters
Author: American Bibliography: Items 1-50192
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Author index also includes a list of corrections.
National Register of Microform Masters, 1965-1975
Author: Library of Congress. Catalog Publication DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description