{"product_id":"one-family-under-god-love-belonging-and-authority-in-early-transatlantic-methodism-hardback-9780812243307","title":"One Family Under God; Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism (Hardback) 9780812243307","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOne Family Under God\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLove, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnna M. Lawrence (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812243307\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 13 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOne Family Under God\u003c\/i\u003e adds significantly to our understanding of both the rise of Methodism and the modern family.\" (Marilyn J. Westerkamp, University of California, Santa Cruz)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally 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.\u003cbr\u003e Focusing on the Methodist notion of family that cut across biological ties, \u003ci\u003eOne Family Under God\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to historical debates over the meaning of family and how the nuclear family model developed over the eighteenth century. Historian Anna M. Lawrence demonstrates that Methodists adopted flexible definitions of affection and allegiance and emphasized extended communal associations that enabled them to incorporate people outside the traditional boundaries of family. They used the language of romantic, ecstatic love to describe their religious feelings and the language of the nuclear family to describe their bonds to one another. In this way, early Methodism provides a useful lens for exploring eighteenth-century modes of family, love, and authority, as Methodists grappled with the limits of familial and social authority in their extended religious family.\u003cbr\u003e Methodists also married and formed conjugal families within this larger spiritual framework. Evangelical modes of marriage called for careful, slow courtships, and often marriages happened later in life and produced fewer children. Religious views of the family offered alternatives to traditional coupling and marriage-through celibacy, spiritual service, and the idea of finding one's true spiritual match, which both challenged the role of parental authority within marriage-making and accelerated the turn within the larger society toward romantic marriage.\u003cbr\u003e By examining the language and practice of evangelical sexuality and family, \u003ci\u003eOne Family Under God\u003c\/i\u003e highlights how the Methodist movement in the eighteenth century was central to the rise of romantic marriage and the formation of the modern family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Transatlantic Methodist Family\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Transatlantic Methodism: Roots and Revivals\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Loosening the Bonds of Family and Society\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Best of Bonds: Joining the Methodist Family\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Religious Ecstasy and Methodist Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Celibacy in the Methodist Family: The Case Against Marriage\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"The Whole World Is Composed of Families\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. One Family, Two Nations\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555711086872,"sku":"9780812243307","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/one-family-under-god-love-belonging-and-authority-in-early-transatlantic-methodism-hardback-9780812243307","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}