Shouting, embracing, and dancing with ecstasy : the growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874 / Calvin Hollett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollett, Calvin, 1952-

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 53.

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodist Church--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--19th century.

Methodist Church.

Methodist Church--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century, Newfoundlanders, who often lived in small, mobile communities where they supported themselves through strenuous work and ingenuity, increasingly broke away from Anglicanism to find joy and comfort in the Methodist tradition. In a remarkable study of a region's reasons for changing how they practiced their faith, Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy presents a unique perspective on the histories of Methodism and Newfoundland." "Contesting previous historical scholarship, Calvin Hollett argues that the growth in Methodism was not the result of clergy-dominated missionary work intended to rescue a degenerated populace. Instead, the author shows how Methodism flourished as a people's movement in which believers in coastal locations were free to experience individual and communal rapture, and giving rise to large lay revivals in more populous areas." "An insightful look at the growth of a religion, Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy reasserts the importance of laypeople in religious matters, while detailing successful ways to bring the religious experience into daily life."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Newfoundland Methodism as social history

Methodism and Newfoundland religion in the nineteenth century

Dialectical tensions within Methodism

Newfoundland Methodism and the question of distinctiveness

Early Methodism in Conception Bay, St. John's, and Trinity Bay

Bonavista and Bonavista Bay

Twillingate and Notre Dame Bay

Burin and Placentia Bay

Grand Bank, Fortune, and the South Coast.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p.[261]-349) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-53077-5

9786613843227

0-7735-8252-5

OCLC:

767732220