| Author |
Richey, Russell E.
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| Subject |
Methodist Church -- United States -- History.
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Methodist preaching -- United States -- History.
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Camp meetings -- United States -- History.
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Forests and forestry -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church.
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| Description |
1 online resource |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Methodism and the American woodland -- Wilderness, shady grove, and garden -- Cathedraling the woods -- A church spread into the wilderness -- Gardening the wilderness or machines in the garden or tending the garden -- Two cities in the woods, Methodism's gardening options : a concluding note -- Appendix: John Wesley preaching under trees and in groves. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on February 12, 2015). |
| Summary |
Methodism found its home in the American forest. It was quickly learned that only a fool would, in the new country, adhere to John Wesley's mandate for preaching in fields. Under the blazing American sun, Methodist preachers found a better outdoors 'sanctuary' for larger gatherings. Camp meetings, if not a Methodist invention, became the movement's signature. Over the course of the nineteenth century, Methodism matured as a denomination and so did its uses of the camp meeting, changes that this volume tracks. |
| ISBN |
9780199359639 (electronic bk.) |
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0199359636 (electronic bk.) |
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9780199359622 |
| OCLC # |
902846578 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Richey, Russell E. Methodism in the American forest. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015] 9780199359622 (DLC) 2014026495 (OCoLC)892895243. |
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