Methodism and the shaping of American culture /  [print] 
edited by Nathan O. Hatch and John H. Wigger. 
 - Nashville, Tennessee :  Kingswood Books,  (c)2001. 
 - 347 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Based on a conference held in Oct. 1994 at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> The puzzle of American Methodism  Methodist growth in transatlantic perspective, circa 1770-1850  Fighting bees : Methodist itinerants and the dynamics of Methodist growth, 1770-1820  Female evangelism in the early Methodist movement, 1784-1845  " ... many of the poor Affricans are obedient to the faith" : reassessing the African American presence in early Methodism in the United States, 1769-1809  The formation of American Methodism : the Chesapeake refraction of Wesleyanism  "To extract poison from the blessings of God's providence" : producerist respectability and Methodist suspisions of capitalist change in the early republic  The Methodist invasion of Congregational New England  Consecrated respectability : Phoebe Palmer and the refinement of American Methodism  Methodists, politics, and the coming of the American Civil War  Nathan O. Hatch  --  David Hempton  --  John H. Wigger  --  Catherine A. Brekus  --  Will Gravely  --  Russell E. Richey  --  William R. Sutton  --  Richard D. Shiels  --  Kathryn T. Long  --  Richard J. Carwardine. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001029317 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Methodist Church--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BX8233.W655.M484 2001 BX8233