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The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914 [electronic resource]
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The Methodist Church met the challenge with a centralized polity and a cross-class, gender-variegated, evolving religious culture. It relied on wealthy laymen to raise special funds, while small gifts fed its regular funds. Young bachelors from Ontario and Britain filled the pastorate, although low pay, inexperience, and poor supervision caused many to quit. Membership growth was slow due to low population density and church-resistant elements in the Methodist population (bachelors, immigrant co-religionists, and transients), and missions to non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants in Winnipeg, Edmonton, and rural Alberta spread Methodist values but gained few members. In The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914, the first scholarly study of church history in the prairie region, George Emery uses quantitative methods and social interpretation to show that the Methodist Church was a cross-class institution with a dynamic evangelical culture, not a middle-class institution whose culture was undergoing secularization. He demonstrates that the Methodist's achievement on the prairies was impressive and compared favourably with what Presbyterians and Anglicans achieved.
Title
The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914 [electronic resource] / George Emery.
Publisher
Montreal Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press
Creation Date
c2001
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index. English
Content
Machine generated contents note: 1 The Prairie West as a Methodist Challenge -- 2 The Methodist Polity and the Social Profile of the Church -- 3 Methodist Traditions -- 4 Money -- 5 Clergy -- 6 Laity -- 7 Methodists and Non-Anglo-Saxon Immigrants -- 8 All People's Mission, Winnipeg -- 9 The Ukrainian Missions in Alberta.
Series
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two