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The Origins of Primitive Methodism (Hardcover)
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The Origins of Primitive Methodism (Hardcover)
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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