| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Cynthia Lynn Lyerly. Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770–1810. (Religion in American Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. viii, 251. $45.00.

There has been an efflorescence of scholarship on early American Methodism. Cynthia Lynn Lyerly's new book bears comparison especially with John H. Wigger's Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America (1998) and Christine Leigh Heyrman's Southern Cross: The Beginnings the Bible Belt (1997). Although Wigger takes a national perspective, he covers much the same ground as Lyerly's account of southern Methodism. Heyrman examines the whole spectrum of southern evangelicalism but gives pride of place to the Methodist experience. All three authors rely heavily on the memoirs of Methodist itinerants and take pains to tease meaning out of these sources in order to gain insight into the relationship of Methodism (or evangelicalism) to early national (or southern) culture. Each of them ponders the question of why religious movements born in an upsurge of popular self-expression and promising some measure of equality for women and freedom for African Americans eventually became reconciled to male prerogative and relations of power established in the secular realm. . . .

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