Religion and violence in early American Methodism
Subtitle: taking the kingdom by force
By: Jeffrey Williams
Series: Religion in North America; Religion in North America
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780253354440
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein; title: Introduction; title: Fighting the good fight; title: Contesting the good fight : warfare and the American Revolution; title: The power to "kill and make alive" : the spiritual battle and the body in post-Revolutionary America; title: Beating their plowshares into swords : Methodists and violence in antebellum America; title: Methodist respectability and the decline of the good fight for salvation; title: The Christian's warfare and social violence.