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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970038703321

Autore

Lyerly Cynthia Lynn <1960->

Titolo

Methodism and the Southern mind, 1770-1810 / / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-774008-1

1-280-45399-0

0-19-535424-9

0-585-18277-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages)

Collana

Religion in America series

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

287.0975

287/.675/09033

Soggetti

Methodist Church - Southern States - History

Methodists - Southern States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references 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 - primarily white women, slaves, and the poor - and their opponents in the Revolutionary and early national American South.