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The Origins of Primitive Methodism
Sandy Calder
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Description for The Origins of Primitive Methodism
Hardback. The Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HRCC2; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 738.
This book shows that while the Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character was working-class, this did not reflect its social origins. It was never the church of the working class, the great majority of whose churchgoers went elsewhere: rather it was the church whose commitment to its emotional witness was increasingly incompatible with middle-class pretensions. Sandy Calder shows that the Primitive Methodist Connexion was a religious movement led by a fairly prosperous elite of middle-class preachers and lay officials appealing to a respectable working-class constituency. This reality has been obscured by the movement's self-image as a persecuted community of humble ... Read more
This book shows that while the Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character was working-class, this did not reflect its social origins. It was never the church of the working class, the great majority of whose churchgoers went elsewhere: rather it was the church whose commitment to its emotional witness was increasingly incompatible with middle-class pretensions. Sandy Calder shows that the Primitive Methodist Connexion was a religious movement led by a fairly prosperous elite of middle-class preachers and lay officials appealing to a respectable working-class constituency. This reality has been obscured by the movement's self-image as a persecuted community of humble ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
737g
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270811
SKU
V9781783270811
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Reviews for The Origins of Primitive Methodism
A signal scholarly achievement which will be the indispensable starting-point for future studies. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY This book throws down an important challenge to some of the uncritically accepted assumptions which have smothered the study of Methodism for too long. HISTORY An important contribution to the history of British Methodism. REVUE D'HISTOIRE ECCLESIASTIQUE ... Read more