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Religion and violence in early American Methodism : taking the kingdom by force / Jeffrey Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Jeffrey, 1973-
- Series:
- Religion in North America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Methodist Church--History--18th century.
- Methodist Church.
- Methodist Church--History--19th century.
- History.
- United States--Church history--18th century.
- United States.
- Church history.
- United States--Church history--19th century.
- Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Violence.
- Language and languages--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
- Introduction
- Fighting the good fight
- Contesting the good fight : warfare and the American Revolution
- The power to "kill and make alive" : the spiritual battle and the body in post-Revolutionary America
- Beating their plowshares into swords : Methodists and violence in antebellum America
- Methodist respectability and the decline of the good fight for salvation
- The Christian's warfare and social violence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253354440
- 0253354447
- OCLC:
- 319492200
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