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Author: Dee E. Andrews
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9780691092980
ISBN 10: 0691092982
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 31 March 2002
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
This is the best social history available of American Methodism's formative years... Andrews's insights ... are often brilliant... A pathbreaking work. -- John Wigger, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Among the best treatments we have of the intertwined influence of class, political economy, and religious belief in the formative era of American evangelicalism. The Methodists and Revolutionary America is a formidable achievement. -- Susan Juster, Journal of American History Because Andrews challenges many conventional images of early Methodists and revivalists and because her conclusions are solidly grounded, this book should be required reading for historians of early American religion. -- Choice At very long last the Methodists of the early United States are receiving the serious historical attention they have always deserved... The Methodists and Revolutionary America is the latest and in some ways the best of ... recent efforts to take the measure of the movement that in the two generations after the War for Independence transformed the face of American religion... The product of nearly two decades of intensive research. -- Mark A. Noll, Reviews in American History This book offers the most accurate assessment to date of American Methodism's complex social origins ... A powerfully revisionist social history of American Methodism's alleged golden age, one that will challenge traditional proponents of declension for years to come. -- Douglas A. Sweeney, Religious Studies Review A superb account of early American Methodism... What comes across most strongly from Andrew's prodigious research are the organizational talents of the Methodist leaders and the extraordinary devotion of the rank and file... Throughout her fine study she instead focuses on the astonishing varietym of figures and groups who found a home in Methodism. Her story is laced with illustrative biographical vignettes of individual travails and triumphs, as well as studded with a wealth of statistics that document the growth and demographic breakdown of the denomination. -- Ruth H. Bloch, Books and Culture A thorough treatment of Methodism in the revolutionary age. Historians of the cultural evolution of the early republic as well as students of Methodist development will benefit greatly from this volume. -- William Sutton, Journal of the Early Republic There is no question that Andrews has produced a brilliantly researched and important book... [It is] the most comprehensive and well-informed account ever written of American Methodism's first forty years. -- David Hempton, Times Literary Supplement Dee Andrews effectively demonstrates ... [that] the Methodists established an efficiently organized, bishop-dominated, governing structure... More amazingly, while maintaining their appeal to the white, middle-class male, they were able to reach out to involve women, the urban poor, and blacks, both free and slave, in impressive numbers. -- Paul D. Haynie, The Historian Methodists have been among the most important artisans of American culture, but as a people they have largely been invisible to historians... Andrews is consistently careful to tease out the contradictions that make it difficult to reduce the movement of a simple formula, such as class consciousness or gendered enlightenment... From the very beginning, the primary goal of this evangelizing church was not to change politics or social structure, but to reach people in every condition 'by popularizing the confessional religious life.' Through Dee Andrews ... that life becomes an essential part of every American history. -- Donald G. Matthews, William and Mary Quarterly Methodists and Revolutionary America emphasizes that the earliest Methodists did not live in North America so much as they were a brooding presence within that society and culture, as--in very different ways they had been in the British Isles. -- Robert Calhoon, The Journal of Religion Although the future of Methodist missionary success after about 1800 lay in the South and the West, its earliest American hearth lay in the coastal mid-Atlantic, in cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore and their rural hinterlands. That is where Andrews trains her focus, as well as her considerable powers for writing well-crafted history based on careful and wide-ranging research. To date, there is no fuller or more evenhanded guide to the origins of American Methodism in the mid-Atlantic... Nor is there a more sensitive recovery of the distinctive quality of early Methodist piety and sensibility and the singular ritual processes by which these pilgrims made their progress from conviction to conversion. -- Christine Leigh Heyrman, Church History
This is the best social history available of American Methodism's formative years... Andrews's insights ... are often brilliant... A pathbreaking work. -- John Wigger Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Among the best treatments we have of the intertwined influence of class, political economy, and religious belief in the formative era of American evangelicalism. The Methodists and Revolutionary America is a formidable achievement. -- Susan Juster Journal of American History Because Andrews challenges many conventional images of early Methodists and revivalists and because her conclusions are solidly grounded, this book should be required reading for historians of early American religion. Choice At very long last the Methodists of the early United States are receiving the serious historical attention they have always deserved... The Methodists and Revolutionary America is the latest and in some ways the best of ... recent efforts to take the measure of the movement that in the two generations after the War for Independence transformed the face of American religion... The product of nearly two decades of intensive research. -- Mark A. Noll Reviews in American History This book offers the most accurate assessment to date of American Methodism's complex social origins ... A powerfully revisionist social history of American Methodism's alleged golden age, one that will challenge traditional proponents of declension for years to come. -- Douglas A. Sweeney Religious Studies Review A superb account of early American Methodism... What comes across most strongly from Andrew's prodigious research are the organizational talents of the Methodist leaders and the extraordinary devotion of the rank and file... Throughout her fine study she instead focuses on the astonishing varietym of figures and groups who found a home in Methodism. Her story is laced with illustrative biographical vignettes of individual travails and triumphs, as well as studded with a wealth of statistics that document the growth and demographic breakdown of the denomination. -- Ruth H. Bloch Books and Culture A thorough treatment of Methodism in the revolutionary age. Historians of the cultural evolution of the early republic as well as students of Methodist development will benefit greatly from this volume. -- William Sutton Journal of the Early Republic There is no question that Andrews has produced a brilliantly researched and important book... [It is] the most comprehensive and well-informed account ever written of American Methodism's first forty years. -- David Hempton Times Literary Supplement Dee Andrews effectively demonstrates ... [that] the Methodists established an efficiently organized, bishop-dominated, governing structure... More amazingly, while maintaining their appeal to the white, middle-class male, they were able to reach out to involve women, the urban poor, and blacks, both free and slave, in impressive numbers. -- Paul D. Haynie The Historian Methodists have been among the most important artisans of American culture, but as a people they have largely been invisible to historians... Andrews is consistently careful to tease out the contradictions that make it difficult to reduce the movement of a simple formula, such as class consciousness or gendered enlightenment... From the very beginning, the primary goal of this evangelizing church was not to change politics or social structure, but to reach people in every condition 'by popularizing the confessional religious life.' Through Dee Andrews ... that life becomes an essential part of every American history. -- Donald G. Matthews William and Mary Quarterly Methodists and Revolutionary America emphasizes that the earliest Methodists did not live in North America so much as they were a brooding presence within that society and culture, as--in very different ways they had been in the British Isles. -- Robert Calhoon The Journal of Religion Although the future of Methodist missionary success after about 1800 lay in the South and the West, its earliest American hearth lay in the coastal mid-Atlantic, in cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore and their rural hinterlands. That is where Andrews trains her focus, as well as her considerable powers for writing well-crafted history based on careful and wide-ranging research. To date, there is no fuller or more evenhanded guide to the origins of American Methodism in the mid-Atlantic... Nor is there a more sensitive recovery of the distinctive quality of early Methodist piety and sensibility and the singular ritual processes by which these pilgrims made their progress from conviction to conversion. -- Christine Leigh Heyrman Church History
Author Information
Dee E. Andrewsis Associate Professor of History at California State University, Hayward, and co-convener of the Bay Area Seminar in Early American History and Culture.
