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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456255003321

Autore

Lyerly Cynthia Lynn <1960->

Titolo

Methodism and the southern mind, 1770-1810 [[electronic resource] /] / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

1-280-45399-0

0-19-535424-9

0-585-18277-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Religion in America series

Disciplina

287.0975

287/.675/09033

Soggetti

Methodist Church - Southern States - History

Methodism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: When Worlds Collide; ONE: Revolutions Civil and Religious: Methodist Beginnings in America; TWO: The Marrow of the Methodist Self: Doctrines, Values, and Practices; THREE: Slaves and Free Blacks in the Church; FOUR: The Poverty of Riches: Methodists and Class; FIVE: ""Mothers in Israel"": White Women in the Church; SIX: Slavery, Racism, and the Master-Slave Relationship; SEVEN: Turning the World Upside Down: The Stakes of the Conflict; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This study analyses the conflicts between Methodists and their opponents in the Revolutionary and early national American South, showing how by condemning pride, violence and slavery, Methodists fashioned an ethic radically at odds with that of the southern elites and the masculine culture of honour. In the RELIGION IN AMERICA series.