{"product_id":"one-family-under-god-9780812243307","title":"One Family Under God","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dissenting religious group whose ideas about sexuality, marriage, and family were very different from those of their contemporaries.\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the Methodist notion of family that cut across biological ties, \u003ci\u003eOne Family Under God\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to historical debates over the meaning of family and how the nuclear family model developed over the eighteenth century. Historian Anna M. Lawrence demonstrates that Methodists adopted flexible definitions of affection and allegiance and emphasized extended communal associations that enabled them to incorporate people outside the traditional boundaries of family. They used the language of romantic, ecstatic love to describe their religious feelings and the language of the nuclear family to describe their bonds to one another. In this way, early Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOne Family Under God\u003c\/i\u003e adds significantly to our understanding of both the rise of Methodism and the modern family.\" * Marilyn J. Westerkamp, University of California, Santa Cruz *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Transatlantic Methodist Family\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Transatlantic Methodism: Roots and Revivals\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Loosening the Bonds of Family and Society\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Best of Bonds: Joining the Methodist Family\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Religious Ecstasy and Methodist Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Celibacy in the Methodist Family: The Case Against Marriage\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"The Whole World Is Composed of Families\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. One Family, Two Nations\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405717021015,"sku":"9780812243307","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812243307.jpg?v=1730493381","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/one-family-under-god-9780812243307","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}