TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hempton,David
TI  - Methodism: empire of the spirit 
SN  - 9780300129854 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BX8231 .H46 2005eb
U1  - 287/.09/033 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Methodism
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Methodist
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Methodisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - რელიგია--
KW  - ქრისტიანობა--
KW  - მეთოდიზმი
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-268) and index; Competition and symbiosis -- Enlightenment and enthusiasm -- The medium and the message -- Opposition and conflict -- Money and power -- Boundaries and margins -- Mapping and mission -- Consolidation and decline -- Methodism's rise and fall
N2  - Publisher description: The emergence of Methodism was arguably the most significant transformation of Protestant Christianity since the Reformation. This book explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s. During that period Methodism refashioned the old denominational order in the British Isles, became the largest religious denomination in the United States, and gave rise to the most dynamic world missionary movement of the nineteenth century. By the end of the nineteenth century, Methodism had circled the globe and was poised to become one of the fastest-growing religious traditions in the modern world
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