Author: Fred Winslow AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Centennial History of the First Methodist Espiscopal Church, Schenectady, N.Y.
Author: Fred Winslow AdamsAmerican Methodist Worship
Author: Karen B. Westerfield TuckerPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199774153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive examination of Methodist practice, tracing its evolution from the earliest days up to the present. Using liturgical texts as well as written accounts in popular and private sources, Karen Westerfield Tucker investigates the various rites and seasons of worship in Methodism and examines them in relation to American society.
Bi-centennial history of Albany. History of the county of Albany, N. Y., from 1609 to 1886. With portraits, biographies and illustrations. [By] Howell [and] Tenney. Assisted by local writers
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Author: George Rogers HowellPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
Centennial Address Relating to the Early History of Schenectady, and Its First Settlers
Author: John Sanders (of Schenectady.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
The Rude Hand of Innovation
Author: David G. HackettPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195362292
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This path-breaking study analyzes the social and religious transformation of Albany, New York, from the town's colonial origins through industrialization in the early nineteenth century. Rather than see the transformation of traditional societies as a process of modernization, Hackett adopts a broader conception of religion as a cultural system and argues that culture influences social order differently in different historical periods. During most of Albany's colonial period, the Dutch townspeople absorbed British people and customs into their Calvinist way of life. Following the Revolution, large scale immigration, urbanization, and the initial spurt of an industrial economy transformed Albany into a bustling commercial center. At the same time new political and religious ideologies that disagreed among themselves yet together advocated economic growth, democracy, education, and individual rights, challenged and finally replaced Calvinism. Drawing on the resources of sociology, social history, and religion, this study illuminates not only the social history of Albany but also presents a new interpretation of the relationship between religion and social order in American history.
Facing the 'King of Terrors'
Author: Robert V. WellsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521633192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book examines the roles and perceptions of death in Schenectady, New York from 1750 to 1990.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Methodist Union Catalog, Pre-1976 Imprints
Author: Kenneth E. RowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"The term 'Methodist' is used in its broadest sense to include the Evangelical United Brethren family, Black Methodist, other U.S. Methodist bodies..."--Intro.
Antiquarian Bookman
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description