Publication

2015 - Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Better World Books9780199359622

Classifications

  • LCCBX8235.R527 2015
  • LCCBX8235 .R527 2015

Description

Methodism found its home in the American forest. It was quickly learned that only a fool would, in the new country, adhere to John Wesley's mandate for preaching in fields. Under the blazing American sun, Methodist preachers found a better outdoors 'sanctuary' for larger gatherings. Camp meetings, if not a Methodist invention, became the movement's signature. Over the course of the nineteenth century, Methodism matured as a denomination and so did its uses of the camp meeting, changes that this volume tracks.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Methodism in the American ForestOxford University Press, Incorporated2015

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