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Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810 by Cynthia Lynn Lyerly is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book looks at the role of Methodism in the Revolutionary and early national South. When the Methodists first arrived in the South, Lyerly argues, they were critics of the social order. By advocating values traditionally deemed "feminine," treating white women and African Americans with considerable equality, and preaching against wealth and slavery, Methodism challenged Southern secular mores. For this reason, Methodism evoked sustained opposition, especially from elite white men. Lyerly analyzes the public denunciations, domestic assaults on Methodist women and children, and mob violence against black Methodists. These attacks, Lyerly argues, served to bind Methodists more closely to one another; they were sustained by the belief that suffering was salutary and that persecution was a mark of true faith.

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Author

Cynthia Lynn Lyerly

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585182773

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Buddhism, History