Religion, gender, and industry : exploring church and Methodism in a local setting / edited by Geordan Hammond, Peter S. Forsaith ; foreword by D. Bruce Hindmarsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hammond, Geordan.

Forsaith, Peter S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fletcher, John, 1729-1785--Congresses.

Fletcher, John.

Fletcher, John, 1729-1785.

Methodism--History--18th century--Congresses--England.

Methodism.

History.

Methodism--Doctrines.

England.

Methodism--History--19th century--Congresses--United States.

United States.

Madeley (Shropshire, England).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xix, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, [2011]

Summary:

How did the emerging centers of industrial activity interact with the places in which they sprung up? this can be seen in microcosm in one small area of the English midlands: the parish of Madeley, Shropshire, in which was the "birthplace of the industrial revolution," Coalbrookdale. Here, the evangelical Methodist clergyman John Fletcher ministered between 1760 and 1785, among a population including Catholics and Quakers as well people indifferent to religion. Then, for nearly sixty years after his death, two women, Fletcher's widow and later her protégé, had virtual charge of the parish, which became one of the last examples of Methodism remaining within the Church of England. Through examining this specific locality, these essays engage particularly with areas of broader significance, including: Methodism's roots and growth in relation to the Church of England, religion and gender in eighteenth-century Britain, and religion and emerging industrial society. The last decade has seen substantial growth in studies of John and Mary Fletcher, early Methodism, and its relationship to the Church of England. In addition to furthering knowledge of Madeley parish and its relation to larger themes in eighteenth-century Britain, the impact of the Fletchers in nineteenth-century American Methodism is examined.

Contents:

Introduction / Geordan Hammond, Peter S. Forsaith

Religion, gender, and industry in the eighteenth century : models and approaches / Jeremy Gregory

John Fletcher's parishioners : reflections on industrial revolution and evangelical revival in the Severn Gorge / Barrie Trinder

John Fletcher's silent bishop : Lord James Beaucleck of Hereford / William Gibson

Church and chapel : Methodism as church extension / David R. Wilson

John Fletcher's links with mystical Methodists and Swedenborgians / Peter James Lineham

"Adoring the Hoy Trinity in unity" : John Fletcher's doxological trinitarianism / Kenneth M. Loyer

Women, work, and worship in the Trefeca family 1752-1773 / Eryn M. White

Mothers in Christ : Mary Fletcher and the women of early Methodism / Brett C. McInelly

Support groups for Methodist women preachers 1803-1851 / John H. Lenton

"Oh that the mantle may rest on me!" : the ministry of Mary Tooth / Carol Blessing

Holding tightly to "the promise of the Father" : Phoebe Palmer and the legacy of the Fletchers of Madeley in mid-nineteenth-century Methodism / Harold E. Raser

John Fletcher as the theologian of early American Methodism / Lawrence W. Wood

The long Fletcher incumbency : a personal view of the context and continuity / Peter S. Forsaith.

Notes:

The contributions in this volume were originally presented at a conference in Shropshire in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1608996425

9781608996421

OCLC:

806436127

Publisher Number:

99949485726