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 Retail $35.00, hardbackReligious Studies ISBN 978-0-86554-630-1 MUP/H472 |
A Wheel Within a Wheel Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness Association by Briane K. Turley This study examines the rise of the holiness movement in Georgia following the Civil War. Employing a blend of social and intellectual historical methods, the study pays particular attention to the shifting cultural conditions occurring in the Georgia and the rest of the southeast around the turn of the century and shows how these changes influenced the movement. The study offers two major theses regarding the Wesleyan-Holiness movement in the United States. First the Holiness movement which emerged in the North after 1830 emphasizing the the speedy attainment of human perfectibility failed to attract receptive audiences in the South due primarily to the cultural conditions of the region. Southern Christians were deeply affected by the culture of honor and the frequent violence it spawned. Moreover, southerners were reluctant to subscribe to the northern formula of Phoebe Palmer's "quick and easy" means to achieving perfect love when they recognized the ambiguities of the slave system--a system most southerners understood as a necessary evil. Second, during the Reconstruction period, at a time when most southerners were searching for new beginnings, the Wesleyan doctrine of immediately acquired perfect love began attracting widespread support in the Southeast. The study examines the Holiness movement's emergence in Georgia and demonstrates that, contrary to decree of several historians, a significant number of Wesleyan Holiness advocated in the New south were not drawn from the ranks of the dispossessed but were in fact members of the region's burgeoning middle class. Employing a blend of social and intellectual historical methods, the study pays particular attention to the shifting cultural conditions occurring in the Georgia and the rest of the Southeast around the turn of the century and determines that these changes had considerable influence on the theological expressions of the Holiness movement. Briane K. Turley is the senior program coordinator for the West Virginia University Affiliated Center for Developmental Disabilities and he is visiting assistant professor at West Virginia University's program for religious studies. He is also the managing editor of The Journal of Southern Religion. Title of related interest When the Church Bell Rang Racist
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