This book shows that while the Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character was working-class, this did not reflect its social origins. It was never the church of the working class, the great majority of whose churchgoers went elsewhere: rather it was the church whose commitment to i...

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1. Verfasser:	Calder, Sandy ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK The Boydell Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:	Studies in modern British religious history 33
Schlagworte:	Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) / History / 19th century Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) / Historiography
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Zusammenfassung:	This book shows that while the Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character was working-class, this did not reflect its social origins. It was never the church of the working class, the great majority of whose churchgoers went elsewhere: rather it was the church whose commitment to its emotional witness was increasingly incompatible with middle-class pretensions. Sandy Calder shows thatthe Primitive Methodist Connexion was a religious movement led by a fairly prosperous elite of middle-class preachers and lay officials appealing to a respectable working-class constituency. This reality has been obscured by the movement's self-image as a persecuted community of humble Christians, an image crafted by Hugh Bourne, and accepted by later historians, whether Methodists with a denominational agenda to promote or scholars in search of working-class radicals. Primitive Methodists exaggerated their hardships and deliberately under-played their social status and financial success. Primitive Methodism in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became the victim of its own founding mythology, because the legend of a community of persecuted outcasts, concealing its actualrespectability, deterred potential recruits. SANDY CALDER graduated with a PhD in Religious Studies from the Open University and has previously worked in the private sector
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021) The historiography problem -- The sources problem -- The Bourne problem -- A third-party view of early primitive methodism -- The baptismal registers -- The 1851 religious census -- The PM Chapel -- The character of the leadership -- Conclusions and a reinterpretation
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 293 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781782046202
DOI:	10.1017/9781782046202