The Origins of Primitive Methodism (Hardcover)

Language: English

Published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Woodbridge, 2016

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Hardcover. The Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins.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 movementled 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 Christians, an image crafted by Hugh Bourne, and accepted by later historians, whether Methodists with a denominational agenda to promote or scholars in search of working-class radicals. Primitive Methodists exaggerated their hardships and deliberately under-played their social status and financial success. Primitive Methodism in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became the victim of its own founding mythology, because the legend of a community of persecuted outcasts, concealing its actual respectability, deterred potential recruits.SANDY CALDER graduated with a PhD in Religious Studies from the Open University and has previously worked in the private sector. The Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
The Origins of Primitive Methodism (Hardcover)
Author
Sandy Calder
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Woodbridge
Publication year
2016
Condition
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Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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1783270810
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