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Documents nearly a century of Methodist education, from the early seminary movement in Upper Canada, through the establishment of ladies' colleges, to the admission of women into the university. Reconstructs what life was like for women at Methodist institutions and highlights changing ideologies, curricula, and views on women's education. Concludes that Methodist education structures consciously created and imposed a class-based gender ideology....
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"No one can claim to understand the American social and religious mind of the last half of the nineteenth century who does not understand sympathetically what evangelist Dwight L. Moody and his career represented. Moody was an entrepreneur, a self-made man, a living expression of much that was hearty and some of what was crass about religion in his day. This is the first biography to place him fully within the context of the broad social, theological,...
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"This study of Victorian fiction's response to religious Nonconformity focuses particularly on the ways Dissent is presented in the novels of the Brontes, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Dickens, Mrs. Oliphant, and Mark Rutherford. As well as scrutinizing the causes and effects of their varying responses to Dissent, the author explores the wider background of Dissent in the period- its spread and location, its links with the city and with radicalism,...
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Following the Revolutionary War, American Methodism grew at an astonishing rate, rising from fewer than 1,000 members in 1770 to over 250,000 by 1820. In Taking Heaven by Storm, John H. Wigger seeks to explain this remarkable expansion, offering a provocative reassessment of the role of popular religion in American life.
Wigger examines American Methodism from a variety of angles, focusing in turn on the circuit riders who relentlessly pushed the...
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