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A Country Strange and Far: The Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1834-1918 - Couverture rigide

McKenzie, Michael C.

 
9781496218810: A Country Strange and Far: The Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1834-1918
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ISBN 10 : 1496218817 ISBN 13 : 9781496218810
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2022

Synopsis

In 1834 the weary missionary Jason Lee arrived on the banks of the Willamette River and began to build a mission to convert the local Kalapuya and Chinook populations to the Methodist Church. The denomination had become a religious juggernaut in the United States, dominating the religious scene throughout the mid-Atlantic and East Coast. But despite its power and prestige and legions of clergy and congregants, Methodism fell short of its goals of religious supremacy in the northwest corner of the continent.

In A Country Strange and Far Michael C. McKenzie considers how and why the Methodist Church failed in the Pacific Northwest and how place can affect religious transplantation and growth. Methodists failed to convert local Native people in large numbers, and immigrants who moved into the rural areas and cities of the Northwest wanted little to do with Methodism. McKenzie analyzes these failures, arguing the region itself--both the natural geography of the place and the immigrants' and clergy's responses to it--was a primary reason for the church's inability to develop a strong following there. The Methodists' efforts in the Pacific Northwest provide an ideal case study for McKenzie's timely region-based look at religion.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael C. McKenzie is an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Keuka College. He is the author of The Ethics of Paul Ramsey: The Triumph of Agape in a Postmodern World and Jehovah's Witnesses: Understanding Their Faith and Teachings.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496218817
ISBN 13 
9781496218810
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
370
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