| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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John H. Wigger. Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. (Religion in America Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. ix, 269. $55.00.

The phenomenal growth of Methodism in the early republic constitutes one of the most remarkable chapters in American religious history. Long ignored by professional historians, a recent burst of scholarship from Russell E. Richey, Christine Leigh Heyrman, and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly has made early Methodist history a dynamic area of inquiry. John H. Wigger contributes to this emerging scholarship with his overview of Methodism between 1770 and 1820. Borrowing heavily from his mentor, Nathan O. Hatch, Wigger identifies Methodism as a popular religious movement that grew by "identifying with middling people on the make . . . making use of an efficient system of itinerant and local preachers, class meetings, love feasts, quarterly meetings, and camp meetings; embracing popular religious enthusiasm; creating a variety of new roles for women within the movement; and making Christianity accessible to African Americans, particularly in the Upper South" (p. 5). . . .

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