The Methodists & Revolutionary America, 1760–1800 – The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture
Author(s): Dee E Andrews (Author)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 5 April 2000
Language: English
Print length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0691009589
ISBN-13: 9780691009582
Book Description
An in-depth narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the most significant popular movements in American history. Placing Methodism’s rise in the ideological context of the American Revolution and the complex social setting of the greater Middle Atlantic where it was first introduced, Dee Andrews argues that this new religion provided an alternative to the exclusionary politics of Revolutionary America. With its call to missionary preaching, its enthusiastic revivals and its prolific religious societies, Methodism competed with republicanism for a place at the centre of American culture. Based on archival sources and a wealth of Wesleyan literature, this book examines all aspects of the early movement. From Methodism’s Wesleyan beginnings to the prominence of women in local societies, the construction of African Methodism, the diverse social profile of Methodist men and contests over the movement’s future, Andrews charts Methodism’s metamorphosis from a British missionary organization to a fully Americanized church.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book offers the most accurate assessment to date of American Methodism’s complex social origins. . . . — Religious Studies Review
This book offers the most accurate assessment to date of American Methodism’s complex social origins. . . . —
Douglas A. Sweeney, Religious Studies Review
From the Inside Flap
“Dee Andrews provides the most comprehensive and rounded history in print of the rise of American Methodism. A signal and enduring achievement.”–Patricia U. Bonomi, author of Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
“The Methodists and Revolutionary America is superbly researched, solidly written, and imaginatively conceived–a superbly synoptic account of one of the defining groups in American religious history.”–Jon Butler, Yale University
From the Back Cover
“Dee Andrews provides the most comprehensive and rounded history in print of the rise of American Methodism. A signal and enduring achievement.”–Patricia U. Bonomi, author ofUnder the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
“The Methodists and Revolutionary America is superbly researched, solidly written, and imaginatively conceived–a superbly synoptic account of one of the defining groups in American religious history.”–Jon Butler, Yale University
About the Author
Dee E. Andrews is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Hayward, and co-convener of the Bay Area Seminar in Early American History and Culture.
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