One Family Under God : : Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism / / Anna M. Lawrence.
Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dissenting religious group whose ideas about sexuality, marriage, and family were very different from tho...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 13 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Transatlantic Methodism: Roots and Revivals
- Chapter 2. Loosening the Bonds of Family and Society
- Chapter 3. The Best of Bonds: Joining the Methodist Family
- Chapter 4. Religious Ecstasy and Methodist Sexuality
- Chapter 5. Celibacy in the Methodist Family: The Case Against Marriage
- Chapter 6. ''The Whole World Is Composed of Families''
- Chapter 7. One Family, Two Nations
- Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments