The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical CultureThe Methodists and Revolutionary America is the first 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 center of American culture. |
Contents
Raising Religious Affections | 13 |
The Invention of Wesleyan Methodism | 19 |
Wesley Versus Whitefield | 24 |
Wesleyan Migration to British America | 31 |
The Wesleyan Connection | 39 |
The Wesleyan Itinerants in America | 40 |
The Coming of the War | 47 |
American Methodists and the War Experience | 55 |
Laboring Men Artisans and Entrepreneurs | 155 |
Wesleyanism Wealth and Social Class | 156 |
Workingmans Church | 161 |
Anatomy of a Methodist Schism | 168 |
New Me | 177 |
POLITICS | 185 |
Methodism Politicized | 187 |
Church State and Partisanship | 188 |
Postwar Conditions Separation and the MEC | 62 |
The Making of a Methodist | 73 |
The Revival Ritual | 76 |
Religious Experience | 84 |
The Methodist Society | 92 |
SOCIAL CHANGE | 97 |
Evangelical Sisters | 99 |
The Female Methodist Network | 100 |
Methodism and Family Conflict | 105 |
Women in the City Societies | 112 |
Gender Public Authority and the Household | 118 |
The African Methodists | 123 |
The First Emancipation and Methodist Antislavery | 124 |
Black Methodists and Social Experience | 132 |
Richard Allen Black Preachers and the Rise of African Methodism | 139 |
Separation and African Methodist Identity | 150 |
Francis Asbury James OKelly and the MEC | 196 |
The Circuit Riders | 207 |
The Great Revival and Beyond | 221 |
1800 and the Coming of the Great Revival | 223 |
Domesticity and Disunion | 226 |
The Meaning of Methodism Americanized | 237 |
A Plain Gospel for a Plain People | 240 |
APPENDIXES | 245 |
Tables | 247 |
Occupational Categories for Tables 1114 | 255 |
Methodological Note | 257 |
Methodist Statistics | 259 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 263 |
NOTES | 265 |
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