1st Edition
Religion of the People Methodism and Popular Religion 1750-1900
By David Hempton
Copyright 1996
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Taking 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. He also explores the themes of law, politics and gender... Read more
Preface Part I 1. 'Motives, Methods and Margins': A Comparative Study of Methodist Growth in the North Atlantic World, 1770-1850 2. Methodism in Irish Society, 1770-1830 3. Popular Religion in Modern Britain. Part II: People: Power and Piety
Biography
David Hempton is Professor of Modern History in the Queen's University of Belfast. He is the author of Methodism and Politics in British Society 1750-1850 (London, 1984), co-author of Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890 and contributor of a number of articles on the religious history of Britain and Ireland in the modern period. He is a fellow of the Royal Historial Society.
