Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America

Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America
ISBN-10
1498576540
ISBN-13
9781498576543
Category
History
Pages
340
Language
English
Published
2019
Author
Samuel Avery-Quinn

Description

This study examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first century. It analyzes middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape.

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