“The Devil Begins to Roar”: Opposition to Early Methodists in New England

In the several decades after their arrival in the New England states in the late 1780s, Methodists were the objects of a wide variety of attacks, some of them mutually contradictory. Their preachers were accused of being pickpockets, horse thieves, and sexual predators, while on the other hand some...

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Main Author: Baldwin, Eric (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
In: Church history
Year: 2006, Volume: 75, Issue: 1, Pages: 94-119
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