Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.(Review)(Brief Article)

Journal of Church and State | March 22, 1999| | Copyright

Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 269 pp. $55.00.

John H. Wigger contends that "American Methodism was the largest, most geographically diverse movement of middling and artisan men and women in the early republic" (p. 6), but that historians have heretofore neglected the denomination outside the context of revivals and the Second Great Awakening. In Taking Heaven by Storm, Wigger aims to correct this oversight, presenting a movement which fundamentally ...

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