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Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy

The Growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874

by (author) Calvin Hollett

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2010
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773536715
    Publish Date
    Feb 2010
    List Price
    $125.00

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Contesting previous historical scholarship, Calvin Hollett argues that the growth in Methodism was not the result of clergy-dominated missionary work intended to rescue a degenerated populace. Instead, the author shows how Methodism flourished as a people's movement in which believers in coastal locations were free to experience individual and communal rapture and welcomed at lay revivals in more populous areas. An insightful look at the growth of a religion, Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy reasserts the importance of laypeople in religious matters, while detailing successful ways to bring the religious experience into daily life.

About the author

Calvin Hollett holds a PhD in history from Memorial University of Newfoundland and is the author of Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy: The Growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874.

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