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Methodism : empire of the spirit / David Hempton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780300129854
  • 0300129858
  • 9786611722500
  • 6611722505
  • 0300106149
  • 9780300106145
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Methodism.DDC classification:
  • 287/.09/033 22
LOC classification:
  • BX8231 .H46 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.55
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Contents:
Competition and symbiosis -- Enlightenment and enthusiasm -- The medium and the message -- Opposition and conflict -- Money and power -- Boundaries and margins -- Mapping and mission -- Consolidation and decline -- Methodism's rise and fall.
Summary: Publisher description: The emergence of Methodism was arguably the most significant transformation of Protestant Christianity since the Reformation. This book explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s. During that period Methodism refashioned the old denominational order in the British Isles, became the largest religious denomination in the United States, and gave rise to the most dynamic world missionary movement of the nineteenth century. By the end of the nineteenth century, Methodism had circled the globe and was poised to become one of the fastest-growing religious traditions in the modern world.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index.

Competition and symbiosis -- Enlightenment and enthusiasm -- The medium and the message -- Opposition and conflict -- Money and power -- Boundaries and margins -- Mapping and mission -- Consolidation and decline -- Methodism's rise and fall.

Publisher description: The emergence of Methodism was arguably the most significant transformation of Protestant Christianity since the Reformation. This book explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s. During that period Methodism refashioned the old denominational order in the British Isles, became the largest religious denomination in the United States, and gave rise to the most dynamic world missionary movement of the nineteenth century. By the end of the nineteenth century, Methodism had circled the globe and was poised to become one of the fastest-growing religious traditions in the modern world.

Print version record.

English.