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Cities of Zion

The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America
  • ISBN-13: 9781498576543
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Samuel Avery-Quinn
  • Price: AUD $273.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2019
  • Format: Hardback 340 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: General studies [GTG]
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Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America follows Methodists and holiness advocates from their urban worlds of mid-century New York City and Philadelphia out into the wilderness where they found green worlds of religious retreat in that most traditional of Methodist theaters: the camp meeting. Samuel Avery-Quinn examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first Century. These transformations are a window into the religious worlds of middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape. This study comprehensively analyzes camp meeting revivalism in America to offer a larger narrative to the historical movement. Avery-Quinn studies how Methodists and holiness advocates sought to sanctify leisure and recreation, struggled to balance a sense of community while mired in American gender role and race relation norms, wrestled with the governance and town planning of their communities, and confronted the shifting economic fortunes and continuing theological controversies of the Progressive Era.
Introduction Chapter 1: Saints in the City Chapter 2: From Parlor to Forest Temple Chapter 3: The Sanctifying Power of Leisure Chapter 4: A City by the Sea Chapter 5: Town Planning in the Gate of Heaven Chapter 6: Two Parties in Beulah Chapter 7: Enduring Zions
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