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The Origins of Primitive Methodism (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,433
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The Origins of Primitive Methodism (Hardcover): Sandy Calder

The Origins of Primitive Methodism (Hardcover)

Sandy Calder

Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History

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The Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins. This book shows that while the Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character was working-class, this did not reflect its social origins. It was never the church of the working class, the great majority of whose churchgoers went elsewhere: rather it was the church whose commitment to its emotional witness was increasingly incompatible with middle-class pretensions. Sandy Calder shows that the Primitive Methodist Connexion was a religious movementled by a fairly prosperous elite of middle-class preachers and lay officials appealing to a respectable working-class constituency. This reality has been obscured by the movement's self-image as a persecuted community of humble Christians, an image crafted by Hugh Bourne, and accepted by later historians, whether Methodists with a denominational agenda to promote or scholars in search of working-class radicals. Primitive Methodists exaggerated their hardships and deliberately under-played their social status and financial success. Primitive Methodism in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became the victim of its own founding mythology, because the legend of a community of persecuted outcasts, concealing its actual respectability, deterred potential recruits. SANDY CALDER graduated with a PhD in Religious Studies from the Open University and has previously worked in the private sector.

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Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
Release date: March 2016
First published: 2016
Authors: Sandy Calder
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-081-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Methodist Churches
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Methodist Churches
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Methodist Churches
LSN: 1-78327-081-0
Barcode: 9781783270811

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