The way of the cross leads home : the domestication of American Methodism /

"This richly detailed study of the rise of American Methodism and its social and cultural impact focuses on Methodist religious practice. Schneider shows how the forms of Methodist social religion laid the foundation for the adoption by many white middle-class Christians of an ideology of evang...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schneider, A. Gregory
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993.
Series:Religion in North America.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Spirituality > Methodist Church > History > 19th century.
Methodist Church > United States > History > 19th century.
Methodist Church > United States > Membership.
Families > United States.
Spiritualité > Église méthodiste > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Église méthodiste > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Familles > États-Unis.
RELIGION > Christianity > Methodist.
Spirituality > Methodist Church
Families
Methodist Church
Methodist Church > Membership
Religion
Methodismus
Religiöses Leben
Methodisme.
United States > Religion > 19th century.
États-Unis > Religion > 19e siècle.
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
  • Introduction: The rise of Methodism and domesticity
  • Patriarchy and the culture of honor
  • Republicanism and reform
  • Migration: persistence and change
  • Experimental religion and the way of the cross
  • The salvation machine and the subversion of patriarchy
  • Discipline and the rhetoric of separation
  • Fellowship and the rhetoric of testimony
  • Methodist identity: the way of the cross versus the culture of honor
  • The family of God
  • Ritualizing families for God
  • The Christian home in the republic
  • Icons of holiness and instruments of morality: women in their sphere and beyond it
  • The family of God gives ground to the salvation machine.

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