Title: Transatlantic revivalism : popular evangelicalism in Britain and America 1790-1865 /
Authors: Carwardine, Richard.
Publisher: Paternoster, an imprint of Authentic Media,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Revivals United States History.; Revivals Great Britain History.; Evangelicalism Great Britain History.; Evangelicalism United States History; Great Britain Church history.; United States Church history.
Abstract: The focus of this classic text is on British and American evangelicals during the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, examining the effect of aggressive conversion techniques used by American evangelicals upon the revival movement. The revival tradition ultimately became orthodoxy in America; in Britain, however, it failed ever to achieve real respectability. Carwardine examines this contrast. This study focuses on those major evangelical denominations, particularly the Methodists, which in both countries provided the primary expression of evangelicalism and which gave it its cutting edge.
Contents: "The American short cut to heaven" -- The New-Measure Revivalism in the United States -- Voices from America -- English Calvinists and the New Revivalism -- The New Revivalism in Wales and Scotland -- James Caughey and Methodist Revivalism -- "A Great National Mercy" : Charles Finney's itinerancy in Britain, 1849-51 -- "Transatlantic Marvels" -- Transatlantic revival.