Author: William Buell SpraguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Annals of the American Pulpit: Methodist
Author: William Buell SpraguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Annals of the American Pulpit: Methodist. [1860
Author: William Buell SpraguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Annals of the American Pulpit: Methodist. 1864. v. 8. Unitarian Congregational. 1865
Author: William Buell SpraguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Annals of the American Pulpit
Author: William Buell SpragueAnnals of the American Pulpit: Methodist. [1860
Author: William Buell SpraguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Garden of American Methodism
Author: William Henry WilliamsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842022279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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The Origins of American Religious Nationalism
Author: Sam HaselbyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190266503
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism. Following U.S. independence, the new republic faced vital challenges, including a vast and unique continental colonization project undertaken without, in the centuries-old European senses of the terms, either "a church" or "a state." Amid this crisis, two distinct Protestant movements arose: a popular and rambunctious frontier revivalism; and a nationalist, corporate missionary movement dominated by Northeastern elites. The former heralded the birth of popular American Protestantism, while the latter marked the advent of systematic Protestant missionary activity in the West. The explosive economic and territorial growth in the early American republic, and the complexity of its political life, gave both movements opportunities for innovation and influence. This book explores the competition between them in relation to major contemporary developments-political democratization, large-scale immigration and unruly migration, fears of political disintegration, the rise of American capitalism and American slavery, and the need to nationalize the frontier. Haselby traces these developments from before the American Revolution to the rise of Andrew Jackson. His approach illuminates important changes in American history, including the decline of religious distinctions and the rise of racial ones, how and why "Indian removal" happened when it did, and with Andrew Jackson, the appearance of the first full-blown expression of American religious nationalism.
Catalogue of the Library of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass
Author: Williams College. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders
Author: Rimi XhemajliPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725269228
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders, Rimi Xhemajli shows how a small but passionate movement grew and shook the religious world through astonishing signs and wonders. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, early American Methodist preachers, known as circuit riders, were appointed to evangelize the American frontier by presenting an experiential gospel: one that featured extraordinary phenomena that originated from God's Spirit. In employing this evangelistic strategy of the gospel message fueled by supernatural displays, Methodism rapidly expanded. Despite beginning with only ten official circuit riders in the early 1770s, by the early 1830s, circuit riders had multiplied and caused Methodism to become the largest American denomination of its day. In investigating the significance of the supernatural in the circuit rider ministry, Xhemajli provides a new historical perspective through his eye-opening demonstration of the correlation between the supernatural and the explosive membership growth of early American Methodism, which fueled the Second Great Awakening. In doing so, he also prompts the consideration of the relevance and reproduction of such acts in the American church today.
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.