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A Disease of the Soul? Melancholy, Methodism and Madmen.

Lychnos, 2022
In the 18th century England melancholy was a topic of an intense and sometimes uncompromising debate. The Methodist movement's positive understanding of melancholy as a feeling related to the care for the soul was intensely criticised.
Trine Outzen
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Religious Diversity in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Iowa in 1915

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 6, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Introduction The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) sought to unite late 19th‐ and early 20th‐century women behind an agenda of prohibition, moral reform, and women's rights. But scholars have rarely studied the denominational diversity of this “Christian” organization.
Adam Chamberlain, Alixandra B. Yanus
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Mother of Holiness: Phoebe Palmer's Maternal Grief, Silence, and Spiritual Leadership in her Spiritual Narrative

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-358, September 2025.
This article expands upon a central aspect of Holiness evangelist Phoebe Palmer's (1807–1874) theology, which has been only tangentially mentioned by scholars: her gendered identity of motherhood. It first considers how Palmer narrated the deaths of her first two sons in her spiritual narrative The Way of Holiness as divine punishment for her ...
Layla Koch
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Hearing God and Debating Liberty: Sound and Methodism in England during the Age of the French Revolution

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 307-325, September 2025.
This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
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Lionel Munby, Marxism, and Local History

History, Volume 110, Issue 389, Page 88-111, January 2025.
Abstract A member of the Communist Party for thirty‐four years, and a key participant in the post‐War Communist Party Historians’ Group, Lionel Munby (1918–2009) is not among that Group's best‐known historians. Yet arguably he was more typical of its membership and outlook.
MARK GOLDIE
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The Economics of Missionary Colonialism: Evaluating the Church Missionary Society's Complicity in Dispossessing the Tsimshian of Metlakatla, 1882–1887

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 456-468, December 2024.
The 1882 religious schism in the mission village of Metlakatla, British Columbia, and the subsequent battle over land rights between the Tsimshian First Nations and settler governments, are some of the most extensively analysed events in the history of missions in nineteenth‐century Canada.
Darren Reid
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Christian Thomasius: logic as the doctrine of reason

Sententiae, 2017
In this article the Thomasius’s logic is estimated not from the point of view of formation of modern formal logic, but as one of the first attempts to create a non formal logic or a theory of the argument.
Sergiy Secundant
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From Voltaire's Quakers to John Boyle's Methodists: Religious Dispute, Bardolatry, and ‘Patriot Enthusiasm’

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 345-363, December 2024.
Abstract Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling ...
Jonathan P.A. Sell
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They seek a city: Methodism in Grahamstown

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P.H.R. Snyman
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The reconciliatory role of Holy Communion in the Methodist tradition

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2011
Violence is an instrument of segregation, whether it manifests physically, emotionally, verbally or by any other means. Can the church be an instrument of reconciliation where people have been divided through violence?
Wessel Bentley
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