| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 228 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Religion in North America
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Religion in North America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein -- Introduction -- Fighting the good fight -- Contesting the good fight : warfare and the American Revolution -- The power to "kill and make alive" : the spiritual battle and the body in post-Revolutionary America -- Beating their plowshares into swords : Methodists and violence in antebellum America -- Methodist respectability and the decline of the good fight for salvation -- The Christian's warfare and social violence. |
| Summary |
Early American Methodists commonly described their religious lives as great wars with sin and claimed they wrestled with God and Satan who assaulted them in terrible ways. Carefully examining a range of sources, including sermons, letters, autobiographies, journals, and hymns, Jeffrey Williams explores this violent aspect of American religious life and thought. Williams exposes Methodism's insistence that warfare was an inevitable part of Christian life and necessary for any person who sought God's redemp. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Methodist Church -- History -- 18th century.
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Methodist Church. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Methodist Church -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Church history -- 18th century.
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United States. |
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Church history. |
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United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, Jeffrey, 1973- Religion and violence in early American Methodism. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2010 9780253354440 (DLC) 2009034078 (OCoLC)319492200 |
| ISBN |
9780253004239 (electronic book) |
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0253004233 (electronic book) |
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1282555146 |
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9781282555143 |
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9780253354440 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253354447 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612555145 |
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