Routledge Methodist Studies Series
About the Book Series
Editorial Board: Ted A. Campbell, David N. Hempton, Priscilla Pope-Levison, Martin Wellings and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker
Methodism remains one of the largest denominations in the USA and is growing in South America, Africa and Asia (especially in Korea and China). This series spans Methodist history and theology, exploring its success as a movement historically and in its global expansion. Books in the series will look particularly at features within Methodism which attract wide interest, including: the unique position of the Wesleys; the prominent role of women and minorities in Methodism; the interaction between Methodism and politics; the ‘Methodist conscience’ and its motivation for temperance and pacifist movements; the wide range of Pentecostal, holiness and evangelical movements; and the interaction of Methodism with different cultures.
British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology
1st Edition
By James E. Pedlar
May 06, 2025
Revivalism was one of the main causes of division in nineteenth-century British Methodism, but the role of revivalist theology in these splits has received scant scholarly attention. In this book, James E. Pedlar demonstrates how the revivalist variant of Methodist spirituality and theology ...
The Invention and Reinventions of Methodism: Sect, Church and Radical Movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew J. Cheatle
March 06, 2025
This book focuses on the transformative journey of Methodism and tackles a profound question: How did a radical revival movement evolve into an established mainstream Church? With a global family of around eighty million, Methodism and its Holiness offshoots have come a long way since their origins...
Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism: Accounts of Spiritual Experience, 1735-1765
1st Edition
By Erika K.R. Stalcup
January 30, 2025
This book examines the spiritual experiences of the first British Methodist lay people and the language used to describe those experiences. It reflects on physical manifestations such as shouting, weeping, groaning, visions, and out-of-body experiences and their role in the process of spiritual ...
Methodism and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism: Reviewing the Revival
1st Edition
By Brett McInelly
November 28, 2024
This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century. Methodism emerged at a time when the idea of a ‘public square’ was taking shape, a process facilitated by the periodical press. Perhaps more so than any previous ...
Henry Foxall’s Journals, 1816-1817: Transatlantic Methodism in Transition
1st Edition
By Jane Donovan
May 27, 2024
This book introduces four journals that Henry Foxall (1758–1823) kept during a trip to the British Isles in 1816–1817. It provides unique primary source material, extensively annotated for clarity and context. Foxall’s journals offer an eyewitness account of Methodist embourgeoisement and ...
John Wesley's Political World
1st Edition
By Glen O’Brien
May 27, 2024
This book employs a global history approach to John Wesley’s (1703–1791) political and social tracts. It stresses the personal element in Wesley’s political thought, focusing on the twin themes of ‘liberty and loyalty’. Wesley’s political writings reflect on the impact of global conflicts on ...
The Monastic Footprint in Post-Reformation Movements: The Cloister of the Soul
1st Edition
By Kenneth C. Carveley
January 29, 2024
This book examines the influence of the monastic tradition beyond the Reformation. Where the built monastic environment had been dissolved, desire for the spiritual benefits of monastic living still echoed within theological and spiritual writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a ...
Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity, 1920-2020
1st Edition
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By Jane Platt, Martin Wellings
September 25, 2023
This book offers a detailed analysis of one of the key episodes of twentieth-century ecumenism, focusing on the efforts made to reconcile the Church of England and the Methodist Church of Great Britain in the years since the First World War. Drawing on newly available archives as well as on a broad...
The Methodist Church in Poland: Activity and Political Conditions, 1945–1989
1st Edition
By Ryszard Michalak
May 31, 2023
This book explores the development and activity of the Methodist Church in Poland, focusing on the political conditions under which it functioned after 1945. In particular it considers the role of party and state power, and the nature and impact of religious policy towards the Church. The chapters ...
The Practice of Mission in Global Methodism: Emerging Trends From Everywhere to Everywhere
1st Edition
Edited
By David W. Scott, Darryl W. Stephens
January 09, 2023
This book brings together Methodist scholars and reflective practitioners from around the world to consider how emerging practices of mission and evangelism shape contemporary theologies of mission. Engaging contemporary issues including migration, nationalism, climate change, postcolonial ...
Methodism in Australia: A History
1st Edition
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By Glen O'Brien, Hilary M. Carey
February 12, 2018
Methodism has played a major role in all areas of public life in Australia but has been particularly significant for its influence on education, social welfare, missions to Aboriginal people and the Pacific Islands and the role of women. Drawing together a team of historical experts, Methodism in ...
The Narrative of the Good Death: The Evangelical Deathbed in Victorian England
1st Edition
By Mary Riso
March 29, 2017
The Christian idea of a good death had its roots in the Middle Ages with ars moriendi, featuring reliance on Jesus as Savior, preparedness for the life to come and for any spiritual battle that might ensue when on the threshold of death, and death not taking place in isolation. Evangelicalism ...