Book Summary
gious thought and experience. The book starts from the assumption that there was no large-scale religious revival during the eighteenth century. Instead, the role of what is called ‘primary religion' - the normal human search for ways of drawing supernatural power into the private life of the individual - is analysed in terms of the emergence of the Wesleyan societies from the Church of England. The Wesleys' achievements are reassessed; there is fresh, unsentimental description of the role of women in the movement, and an unexpectedly sympathetic picture emerges of Hanoverian Anglicanism.
Book Details
| Book Name | Wesley And The Wesleyans: Religion In Eighteenth-Century Britain |
| Author | John Kent |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (Aug 2002) |
| ISBN | 9780521455558 |
| Pages | 236 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1524 |