Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America - Tapa blanda

Wigger, John H.

 
9780252069949: Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America
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ISBN 10: 0252069943 ISBN 13: 9780252069949
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2001

Sinopsis

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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John Wigger is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252069943
ISBN 13 
9780252069949
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Número de páginas
288
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9780195104523: Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America (Religion in America)

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ISBN 10:  0195104528 ISBN 13:  9780195104523
Editorial: OUP USA, 1998
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