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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458353903321

Autore

Williams Jeffrey <1973->

Titolo

Religion and violence in early American Methodism [[electronic resource] ] : taking the kingdom by force / / Jeffrey Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-55514-6

9786612555145

0-253-00423-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Religion in North America

Disciplina

287.0973/09033

Soggetti

Methodist Church - History - 18th century

Methodist Church - History - 19th century

Violence - Religious aspects - Christianity

Language and languages - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

United States Church history 18th century

United States Church history 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein -- Introduction -- Fighting the good fight -- Contesting the good fight : warfare and the American Revolution -- The power to "kill and make alive" : the spiritual battle and the body in post-Revolutionary America -- Beating their plowshares into swords : Methodists and violence in antebellum America -- Methodist respectability and the decline of the good fight for salvation -- The Christian's warfare and social violence.