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Title Details
17th July 2014
332 Pages
15.60 x 23.40 cm
33 colour. 4 line. Illustrations
Series: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc
Imprint: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
The Rise of Methodism: A Study of Bedfordshire, 1736-1851
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A radical re-examination of the rise of early nineteenth-century Britain's largest popular movement
This radical re-examination of the rise of early nineteenth-century Britain's largest popular movement draws on a wide range of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and impact of early Methodism in the unlikelystronghold of Bedfordshire. The study digs beneath the seemingly steady advance portrayed by official membership statistics to uncover a much more unstable and rapidly changing picture in which different generations and social groups appropriated the religious structures of the movement as vehicles to express a wide variety of aspirations and grievances.
JONATHAN RODELL read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a Visiting Fellow at Southern Methodist University, Dallas and now teaches for Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education.
JONATHAN RODELL read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a Visiting Fellow at Southern Methodist University, Dallas and now teaches for Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education.
Introduction
Pious societies: the first rise of Methodism 1736 - 1790
Respectable congregations: the second rise of Methodism 1791 - 1830
Popular protests: the third rise of Methodism 1831 - 1851
Re-visiting the rise of Methodism: Bedfordshire and the historiography of Methodist growth
Appendix A: Evaluating the sources for Methodist history
Appendix B: The sub-division of the Bedfordshire Wesleyan circuit 1763 - 1851
Glossary
Works Cited
Pious societies: the first rise of Methodism 1736 - 1790
Respectable congregations: the second rise of Methodism 1791 - 1830
Popular protests: the third rise of Methodism 1831 - 1851
Re-visiting the rise of Methodism: Bedfordshire and the historiography of Methodist growth
Appendix A: Evaluating the sources for Methodist history
Appendix B: The sub-division of the Bedfordshire Wesleyan circuit 1763 - 1851
Glossary
Works Cited
"No regional history of Methodism draws on such an illuminating range of sources as this one." ARCHIVES
Hardcover
9780851550794
$34.95 / £25.00
Title Details
17th July 2014
332 Pages
1.56 x 2.34 cm
33 colour. 4 line. Illustrations
Series: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc
Imprint: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society