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Wesley and the Wesleyans challenges the cherished myth that at the moment when the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution were threatening the soul of eighteenth-century England, an evangelical revival - led by the Wesleys - saved it. It will interest anyone concerned with the history of Methodism and the Church of England, the Evangelical tradition, and eighteenth-century religious thought and experience. The book starts from the assumption that there was no large-scale religious revival during the eighteenth century. Instead, the role of what is called 'primary religion' - the normal human search for ways of drawing supernatural power into the private life of the individual - is analysed in terms of the emergence of the Wesleyan societies from the Church of England. The Wesleys' achievements are reassessed; there is fresh, unsentimental description of the role of women in the movement, and an unexpectedly sympathetic picture emerges of Hanoverian Anglicanism.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Wesley and the Wesleyans
• Subtitle: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• Author: John Kent
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 236
• EAN: 9780521455329
• ISBN: 0521455324
• ID: 02031532
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 446 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. July 2002

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