Religion, Gender, and Industry, Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting (Heftet (myke permer))

Geordan Hammond is Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies, Nazarene Theological College and Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, UK. Peter S. Forsaith is Research Fellow at The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Coalbrookdale in the parish of Madeley, Shropshire is seen as the "birthplace of the industrial revolution" while remaining one of the last examples of a Methodist parish in England. These works engage with a variety of areas of study: Methodism's roots and growth in relation to the Church of England, religion and gender in eighteenth century Britain, and religion and the emergence of an industrial society, and do so from a variety of different approaches: historical, theological, economic and sociological. The result is not only a through examination of a single parish but a consideration of its relation to larger themes in eighteenth-century Britain and the impact of English Methodism on nineteenth-century American Methodism.

Foreword by D. Bruce Hindmarsh Introduction - Geordan Hammond and Peter S. Forsaith 1 Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century: Models and Approaches - Jeremy Gregory 2 John Fletcher's Parishioners: Reflections on Industrial Revolution and Evangelical Revival in the Severn Gorge - Barrie Trinder 3 John Fletcher's Silent Bishop: Lord James Beauclerk of Hereford - William Gibson 4 Church and Chapel: Methodism as Church Extension - David R. Wilson 5 John Fletcher's Links with Mystical Methodists and Swedenborgians - Peter James Lineham 6 "Adoring the Holy Trinity in Unity": John Fletcher's Doxological Trinitarianism - Kenneth M. Loyer 7 Women, Work, and Worship in the Trefeca Family 1752 - 1773 - Eryn M. White 8 Mothers in Christ: Mary Fletcher and the Women of Early Methodism - Brett C. McInelly 9 Support Groups for Methodist Women Preachers 1803 - 1851 - John H. Lenton 10 "Oh That the Mantle May Rest on Me!": The Ministry of Mary Tooth - Carol Blessing 11 Holding Tightly to "the Promise of the Father": Phoebe Palmer and the Legacy of the Fletchers of Madeley in Mid-Nineteenth- Century Methodism - Harold E. Raser 12 John Fletcher as the Theologian of Early American Methodism - Laurence W. Wood 13 The Long Fletcher Incumbency: A Personal View of the Context and Continuity - Peter S. Forsaith List of Contributors Index