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Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America

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Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America - Wigger, John H
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Following the Revolutionary War, American Methodism grew at an astonishing rate, rising from fewer than 1000 members in 1770 to over 250,000 by 1820. John H. Wigger seeks to explain the puzzle of this remarkable growth, offering a provocative reassessment of the role of popular religion in American life. Wigger argues that in the post-Revolutionary years Methodism's style, tone, and agenda worked their way deep into the fabric of American life, influencing all other mass religious movements that would follow, and many ...

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Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America 2001, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252069949

Trade paperback

Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America 1998, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195104523

Hardcover