Gender, emotion, medicine, electricity, ecology, literacy, rhetoric—these terms are a little thin in the indices of the standard books on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. More typical would ...

When a publishing company in the cradle of Methodism needed an editor to compile a new book on Methodist studies, it chose a historian with roots in one of the tradition's American cradles. The Rev.

The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture, by Dee E. Andrews, Princeton University Press, 2000, 367 pp.; $59.50 The title of Dee Andrews’s superb ...