Gender, emotion, medicine, electricity, ecology, literacy, rhetoric—these terms are a little thin in the indices of the standard books on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. More typical would ...
A recent Mississippi Library Association conference exhibit in Vicksburg features a photo of descendants of John G. Jones who wrote an early history of Methodism in Mississippi. They are Henry Scott ...
THE history of a religious denomination is in itself a matter of no small importance. Taken in connection with other ecclesiastical bodies as a portion of the data in estimating the national ...
From about 1784 to 1890, Methodism in what is now the southeastern United States was fostered by "circuit riders." The term was an American coinage and the circuit rider traveled by horseback from ...
Methodism took root in England at Oxford University in 1729. Forty-four years later, the sect had reached the “Holston Country,” the rugged American frontier region where Indians posed resistance. One ...
This is one of a series of stories related to the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Methodist leader Francis Asbury in the United States. (RNS) — Two and a half centuries ago, Francis Asbury arrived ...
The Methodist Church may no longer be the largest denomination in America. Its rate of growth not compare well with that of Protestantism in general. For the past six years there has been a decided ...
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