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Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with EcstasyThe Growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874 |
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An impressive study of the important role common people play in reviving faith.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Newfoundlanders, who often lived in small, mobile communities where they supported themselves with strenuous work and ingenuity, increasingly broke away from Anglicanism to find joy and comfort in the Methodist tradition. In this remarkable study of a region's reasons for changing how they practiced their faith, Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy presents a unique perspective on the histories of Methodism and Newfoundland.
Contesting previous historical scholarship, Calvin Hollett argues that the growth in Methodism was not the result of clergy-dominated missionary work intended to rescue a degenerated populace. Instead, the author shows how Methodism flourished as a people's movement in which believers in coastal locations were free to experience individual and communal rapture, giving rise to large lay revivals in more populous areas.
An insightful look at the growth of a religion, Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy reasserts the importance of laypeople in religious matters, while detailing successful ways to bring the religious experience into daily life.
Contesting previous historical scholarship, Calvin Hollett argues that the growth in Methodism was not the result of clergy-dominated missionary work intended to rescue a degenerated populace. Instead, the author shows how Methodism flourished as a people's movement in which believers in coastal locations were free to experience individual and communal rapture, giving rise to large lay revivals in more populous areas.
An insightful look at the growth of a religion, Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy reasserts the importance of laypeople in religious matters, while detailing successful ways to bring the religious experience into daily life.
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Part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Series (number 2.53 in series)
368 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773536715
February 2010
Formats: Cloth, eBook
"Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy is an excellent, carefully constructed, and well-expressed work that covers a remarkable range of sources. Calvin Hollett has written a revealing account not only of an important aspect of the history of religion in Newfoundland and Canada but of the history of Methodism generally. " Peter Neary, Department of History, University of Western Ontario
"Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy ultimately does for the history of Methodism in Newfoundland what Jerry Bannister's Rule of the Admirals (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History / University of Toronto Press, 2003) did for the history of the colony's legal culture. Where Bannister refuted the idea that eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an anarchic backwater, Hollett deflates the notion that clerical elites were primarily responsible for triggering Methodism's rise within the colony. In doing so he has enriched Newfoundland's social and religious historiography." The Canadian Historical Review
"Hollett is seeking to portray Methodism in Newfoundland as a lay-driven, vibrant, enthusiastic form of Christianity, which he does very well through the use of a wide range of sources including letters, diaries, Methodist periodicals, and missionary reports." Church History: Studied in Christianity and Culture
"Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy ultimately does for the history of Methodism in Newfoundland what Jerry Bannister's Rule of the Admirals (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History / University of Toronto Press, 2003) did for the history of the colony's legal culture. Where Bannister refuted the idea that eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an anarchic backwater, Hollett deflates the notion that clerical elites were primarily responsible for triggering Methodism's rise within the colony. In doing so he has enriched Newfoundland's social and religious historiography." The Canadian Historical Review
"Hollett is seeking to portray Methodism in Newfoundland as a lay-driven, vibrant, enthusiastic form of Christianity, which he does very well through the use of a wide range of sources including letters, diaries, Methodist periodicals, and missionary reports." Church History: Studied in Christianity and Culture
Calvin Hollett received his PhD in history from Memorial University and is a specialist in rare Newfoundland books.
Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy
Calvin Hollett
Table of Contents
Illustrations xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Maps xix
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Newfoundland Methodism as Social History
CHAPTER TWO
Methodism and Newfoundland Religion in the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER THREE
Dialectical Tensions within Methodism
CHAPTER FOUR
Newfoundland Methodism and the Question of Distinctiveness
CHAPTER FIVE
Early Methodism in Conception Bay, St John’s, and Trinity Bay
CHAPTER SIX
Bonavista and Bonavista Bay
CHAPTER SEVEN
Twillingate and Notre Dame Bay
CHAPTER EIGHT
Burin and Placentia Bay
CHAPTER NINE
Grand Bank, Fortune, and the South Coast
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Calvin Hollett
Table of Contents
Illustrations xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Maps xix
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Newfoundland Methodism as Social History
CHAPTER TWO
Methodism and Newfoundland Religion in the Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER THREE
Dialectical Tensions within Methodism
CHAPTER FOUR
Newfoundland Methodism and the Question of Distinctiveness
CHAPTER FIVE
Early Methodism in Conception Bay, St John’s, and Trinity Bay
CHAPTER SIX
Bonavista and Bonavista Bay
CHAPTER SEVEN
Twillingate and Notre Dame Bay
CHAPTER EIGHT
Burin and Placentia Bay
CHAPTER NINE
Grand Bank, Fortune, and the South Coast
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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