Transatlantic Methodists : British Wesleyanism and the formation of an evangelical culture in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec / Todd Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Todd, 1973- author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 66.

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; no. 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wesleyan Methodist Church.

Methodist Church--Ontario--History--19th century.

Methodist Church.

Methodist Church--Québec (Province)--History--19th century.

Methodists--Ontario--History--19th century.

Methodists.

Methodists--Québec (Province)--History--19th century.

Wesleyan Methodist Church--Influence.

Church history.

History.

Ontario--Church history--19th century.

Ontario.

Québec (Province)--Church history--19th century.

Québec (Province).

Great Britain--Church history--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Methodists in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec, like all British subjects, existed as satellites of an influential empire. Transatlantic Methodists uncovers how the Methodist ministry and laity in these colonies, whether they were British, American, or native-born, came to define themselves as transplanted Britons and Wesleyans in response to their changing, often contentious relationship with the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Britain. Revising the nationalist framework that has dominated much of the scholarship on Methodism in central Canada, Todd Webb argues that a transatlantic perspective is necessary to understand the process of cultural formation among nineteenth-century Methodists. He shows that the Wesleyan Methodists in Britain played a key role in determining the identities of their colonial counterparts through disputes over the meaning of political loyalty, how Methodism should be governed, who should control church finances, and the nature and value of religious revivalism. At the same time, Methodists in Ontario and Quebec threatened to disrupt the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Britain and helped to trigger the largest division in its history. Methodists on both sides of the Atlantic shaped - and were shaped by - the larger British world in which they lived. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 "United by the Ties of Race and Kindred": The Formation of a British World 17

2 "The Storm so Strangely Raised in the British Provinces": A British Wesleyan Errand into the Wilderness 43

3 "The Wretched Business of Canada": Unity and Schism among the Canadian Methodists 70

4 "Untiring Endeavours to Save Souls and to Raise Money": Mission Financing and Cultural Formation 102

5 "We Have Seen ... Something Like British Methodism": Revivalism, Pastoral Authority, and Cultural Formation 135.

Notes:

Based on thesis (doctoral) - York University, 2006, under title: The religious Atlantic: British Wesleyanism and the formation of an evangelical culture in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773542044

0773542043

OCLC:

859027987