Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism

by Phyllis Mack

This is a major study of the daily life and spirituality of early Methodist men and women. Phyllis Mack challenges traditional, negative depictions of early Methodism through an analysis of a vast array of primary sources - prayers, pamphlets, hymns, diaries, recipes, private letters, accounts of dreams, and rules for housekeeping. She examines how ordinary men and women understood the seismic shift from the religious culture of the seventeenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521889189
• ISBN13: 9780521889186
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"