Methodism and the southern mind, 1770-1810 /
Early Methodism was a despised and outcast movement that attracted the least powerful members of Southern societyslaves, white women, poor and struggling white men - and invested them with a sense of worth and agency. Methodists created a public sphere where secular rankings, patriarchal order, and...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Series: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Revolutions civil and religious: Methodist beginnings in America
- The marrow of the Methodist self: doctrines, values, and practices
- Slaves and free blacks in the church
- The poverty of riches: Methodists and class
- "Mothers in Israel": white women in the church
- Slavery, racism, and the master-slave relationship
- Turning the world upside down: the stakes of the conflict.