Author: Charles Force DeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Southern Methodist Pulpit
Author: Charles Force DeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Pulpit, Press, and Politics
Author: Scott McLarenPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442619783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
When American Methodist preachers first arrived in Upper Canada in the 1790s, they brought with them more than an alluring religious faith. They also brought saddlebags stuffed with books published by the New York Methodist Book Concern – North America’s first denominational publisher – to sell along their preaching circuits. Pulpit, Press, and Politics traces the expansion of this remarkable transnational market from its earliest days to the mid-nineteenth century, a period of intense religious struggle in Upper Canada marked by fiery revivals, political betrayals, and bitter church schisms. The Methodist Book Concern occupied a central place in all this conflict as it powerfully shaped and subverted the religious and political identities of Canadian Methodists, particularly in the wake of the American Revolution. The Concern bankrolled the bulk of Canadian Methodist preaching and missionary activities, enabled and constrained evangelistic efforts among the colony’s Native groups, and clouded Methodist dealings with the British Wesleyans and other religious competitors north of the border. Even more importantly, as Methodists went on to assume a preeminent place in Upper Canada’s religious, cultural, and educational life, their ongoing reliance on the Methodist Book Concern played a crucial role in opening the way for the lasting acceptance and widespread use of American books and periodicals across the region.
The Southern Lady's Companion
Author: Wesley Studies
Author: Ministers and Masters
Author: Charity R. CarneyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807138878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
In Ministers and Masters Charity R. Carney presents a thorough account of the way in which Methodist preachers constructed their own concept of masculinity within -- and at times in defiance of -- the constraints of southern honor culture of the early nineteenth century. By focusing on this unique subgroup of southern men, the book explores often-debated concepts like southern honor and patriarchy in a new way. Carney analyzes Methodist preachers both involved with and separate from mainstream southern society, and notes whether they served as itinerants -- venturing into rural towns -- or remained in city churches to witness to an urban population. Either way, they looked, spoke, and acted like outsiders, refusing to drink, swear, dance, duel, or even dress like other white southern men. Creating a separate space in which to minister to southern men, women, and children, oftentimes converting a dancehall floor into a pulpit, they raised the ire of non- Methodists around them. Carney shows how understanding these distinct and often defiant stances provides an invaluable window into antebellum society and also the variety of masculinity standards within that culture. In Ministers and Masters, Carney uses ministers' stories to elucidate notions of secular sinfulness and heroic Methodist leadership, explores contradictory ideas of spiritual equality and racial hierarchy, and builds a complex narrative that shows how numerous ministers both rejected and adopted concepts of southern mastery. Torn between convention and conviction, Methodist preachers created one of the many "Souths" that existed in the nineteenth century and added another dimension to the well-documented culture of antebellum society.
Southern Literary Messenger
Author: Annals of Southern Methodism
Author: Charles Force DeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Pulpits of the Lost Cause
Author: Steve LongeneckerPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817321497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Compares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period
Holston Methodism
Author: Richard Nye PriceThe Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition
Author: Vinson SynanPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802841032
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Called "a pioneer contribution" by Church History when it was first published in 1971, this volume has now been revised and enlarged by Vinson Synan to account for the incredible changes that have occurred in the church world in the last 25 years.