Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America
- ISBN-10
- 1498576559
- ISBN-13
- 9781498576550
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 358
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-10-14
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- 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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