The Rise of Methodism: A Study of Bedfordshire, 1736-1851
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332 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

33 colour, 4 line illus.

Series: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc

Series Vol. Number: 92

Imprint: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society

The Rise of Methodism: A Study of Bedfordshire, 1736-1851

by Jonathan Rodell

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A radical re-examination of the rise of the largest popular movement in early nineteenth-century Britain draws on a wide range of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and impact of early Methodism in Bedfordshire, an unlikely stronghold

This radical re-examination of the rise of the largest popular movement in early nineteenth-century Britain draws on a wide range of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and impact of early Methodism in Bedfordshire, an unlikely stronghold. 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.

Dr Jonathan Rodell read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a Visiting Fellow at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and is now a Panel Tutor for the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.

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July 2014

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Title Details

332 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

33 colour, 4 line illus.

Series: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc

Series Vol. Number: 92

Imprint: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society