The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion C. 1750-1900Taking account of broader patterns of growth, the focus of this book is Methodism in the British Isles. Hempton discusses why Methodism, the most important religious movement in the English-speaking world in the 18th and 19th centuries, grew when and where it did and what was the nature of the Methodist experience for those who embraced it. |
Contents
comparisons and experiences | 1 |
METHODISM IN IRISH SOCIETY 17701830 | 29 |
POPULAR RELIGION IN MODERN BRITAIN | 49 |
power and piety | 73 |
THE FORMATIVE YEARS 17941820 | 91 |
THOMAS ALLAN AND METHODIST POLITICS 17901840 | 109 |
RURAL REVIVALIST 17911839 | 130 |
law politics and gender | 141 |
POPULAR EVANGELICALISM REFORM AND POLITICAL | 162 |
WOMEN AND EVANGELICAL RELIGION IN IRELAND | 179 |
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The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion C. 1750-1900 David Hempton No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
Anglican Arminian Belfast Britain British Isles British Society Bunting's Catholic Emancipation chapel Christian Church of England circuit Committee of Privileges Conference connexion Conventicles Crookshank cultural denominational discipline dissenting Dublin E. P. Thompson early Methodist ecclesiastical economic eighteenth century English society Established Church Flora Thompson Gideon Ouseley Hempton historians History of Methodism Ibid idem Industrial Revolution interpretation Ireland Irish Methodists itinerant preaching Jabez Bunting John Wesley liberty linen triangle London Lough Erne MARC Allan Mss McLeod meetings membership Methodism and Politics Methodism's Methodist expansion Methodist experience Methodist growth mission moral nineteenth century NIPRO numbers Obelkevich Ouseley Coll Ouseley's Oxford pattern period piety popular evangelicalism popular religion Presbyterian Protestant Protestantism Queen's University Belfast radicalism reform Religion and Society religious movement revivalists Revolution Roman Catholic rural social spiritual structure Sunday schools traditional Ulster urban Victorian W. R. Ward Wesley Historical Society Wesley's Wesleyan women working-class