Historical Dictionary of Methodism

(Hardback, Fourth Edition)

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Methodism, originally founded in the eighteenth century, has grown into a large and influential Protestant denomination. As of 2016, it claimed around 50 million adherents in 80 churches in more than 150 countries. Its history illuminates our understanding of modern culture, ethics, literature, politics, Christian mission, womens studies, and many related topics.

Historical Dictionary of Methodism, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on important institutions, events, doctrines, and people who have contributed to the movement and to broader society in the three centuries since it was founded. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Methodism as a global movement.

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Jennifer Woodruff Tait is the author of Christian History in Seven Sentences and The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism, co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism, and senior editor at Christian History magazine.
Christopher J. Anderson is archives and special collections librarian at Allegheny College. He is the author of The Centenary Celebration of American Methodist Missions: The 1919 Worlds Fair of Evangelical Americanism and Voices from the Fair: Race, Gender, and the American Nation at a Methodist Missionary Exposition.