Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America by John H. Wigger

Religion in America Life (Hardcover)

Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America

John H. Wigger

288 pages paperback 1998

2 editions

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced
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In 1770 there were fewer than 1,000 Methodists in America. Fifty years later, the church counted more than 250,000 adherents. Identifying Methodism as America's most significant large-scale popular religious movement of the antebellum period, John...

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