Details

Subject(s)

• Methodist Church—Southern States—History [Browse]
• Methodists—Southern States—History [Browse]

Series

• Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]
• Religion in America series

Summary note

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.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Language note

English

Contents

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;

ISBN

• 0-19-774008-1
• 1-280-45399-0
• 0-19-535424-9
• 0-585-18277-9

OCLC

• 476010080
• 935260499
• 1406780861
• 1176024016

Doi

10.1093/oso/9780195114294.001.0001

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