Methodism and the Southern mind, 1770-1810 / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyerly, Cynthia Lynn, 1960- author.

Series:

Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)

Oxford scholarship online.

Religion in America series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodist Church--Southern States--History.

Methodist Church.

Methodists--Southern States--History.

Methodists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study analyses the conflicts between Methodists - primarily white women, slaves, and the poor - and their opponents in the Revolutionary and early national American South.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: When Worlds Collide; ONE: Revolutions Civil and Religious: Methodist Beginnings in America; TWO: The Marrow of the Methodist Self: Doctrines, Values, and Practices; THREE: Slaves and Free Blacks in the Church; FOUR: The Poverty of Riches: Methodists and Class; FIVE: ""Mothers in Israel"": White Women in the Church; SIX: Slavery, Racism, and the Master-Slave Relationship; SEVEN: Turning the World Upside Down: The Stakes of the Conflict; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-774008-1

1-280-45399-0

0-19-535424-9

0-585-18277-9

OCLC:

476010080