Susan Juster | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760–1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. By Dee E. Andrews. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. xvi, 367 pp. $59.50, ISBN 0-691-00958-9.)

Early American Methodists are finally getting the attention they deserve. No less than three major works have appeared in the last two years (Christine Leigh Heyrman's Southern Cross, John H. Wigger's Taking Heaven by Storm, and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly's Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770–1810), all bold in interpretation and elegant in execution, and to these we can now add Dee E. Andrews's long-awaited contribution on the founding generation of Methodists in America. Together these studies share an abiding interest in the popular dimensions of early Methodism (its rituals, experiential ethos, and eclectic supernaturalism), an appreciation of the paradoxical nature of Methodist ecclesiology (in which a democratic theology was married to an autocratic institutional structure), and an attentiveness to the fault lines of race, gender, and class that lay just below the surface of this most dynamic evangelical movement. . . .

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