One Family Under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism

by Anna M. Lawrence

Book Overview

Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dissenting religious group whose ideas about sexuality, marriage, and family were very different from those of their contemporaries.

Focusing on the Methodist notion of family that cut across biological ties, One Family Under God speaks to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243307
• ISBN13: 9780812243307
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"