Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism: Taking the Kingdom by Force

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Index Abbott, Benjamin, 3–4, 63, 83, 188n65 Abbott, David, 188n65 “Account of the Rise and Progress of the Work of God in the Western Country” (Hinde), 110 “The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone” (Filson), 107 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 72, 148 aggression, 4, 168, 180n18; against Native Americans, 93–94, 113, 122, 128, 171; of Native Americans, 124, 127; refusal of, 45–46, 47, 59; in war, 55, 157, 158, 159. See also violence and American Methodists Aldersgate (London), England, 17, 29, 181n8 Allen, Richard, 72 Allyn, Robert, 155 “Am I a Soldier of the Cross?” (Watts), 1 American Baptist Missionary Union, 114 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 114, 116 American Methodists, growth, 69–70, 108, 114 American Methodists and the American Revolution, 42, 66, 101; loyalists, 49, 57, 187n29, 188n78; neutrality, 11, 42, 55–56, 57–59, 60, 62–65; patriots, 56–57; persecution, 56, 61, 64; relation to cosmic battle, 42, 62–63, 65–66. See also Wesley, John, and the American Revolution American Methodists and the Civil War: cosmic battle, 12, 134, 161, 169, 171; just war, 156, 157–59; sacred duty, 154, 155. See also Civil War American Methodists and missionary endeavors: Christianizing and civilizing, 105, 108, 116–21; imperial cultural mindset, 118–21, 123, 124, 127; Native American missions, 113, 220 Index 114, 115–16, 119–20, 125–26. See also Methodist missionary endeavors American Methodists and politics: ambivalence, 59, 61–67; imperialistic expansion, 121–28; neutrality, 11, 42, 58, 59, 60; sacralization, 95–98; war participation, 101–105, 154–59 American Methodists and the War of 1812: Christian soldiers in, 104–105; neutrality during, 100–101; support for, 102–103. See also War of 1812 American Revolution, 42–66. See also American Methodists and the American Revolution; Wesley, John, and the American Revolution American West: camp meetings, 99, 110–11, 113, 132; cultural imperial mindset, 121, 123, 124, 127; as garden and wilderness, 107–109; Methodist interest, 108–14; missionary endeavors in, 114–21; mythology of, 106–108; Native American removal, 125–26, 127, 128; social violence, 121–28; triumph of Christianity in, 107, 112–14 Aquinas, Thomas, 157 Arminian theology, 61, 180n10 Arminius, Theophilus, 110. See also Hinde, Thomas (Theophilus Arminius) Asbury, Francis (bishop), 110, 138, 140; American Revolution, 56–57, 188n65; frontier violence, 92, 123; spiritual attacks, 3, 85–88, 90, 180n5, 192n70; suffering, 65, 189n98; War of 1812, 101, 108 Bangs, Nathan, 114, 151 Berkhofer, Robert, 118–19 Bible and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 114, 115, 117, 118, 141, 151 Black, Peter, 104 Bloch, Maurice, 12, 165–67, 168–69 Bloch, Ruth, 59–60, 194n21 bodily exercises. See bodily religious experiences bodily religious experiences, 11, 35–38, 79–80, 182n38, 185n109; change of thinking about, 73–75, 76–78, 83, 132–33, 135; in conversion, 35, 36, 70, 72, 74, 182n38; crying out, 25, 31, 36, 37, 111, 144, 148; decline of, 78–80, 89–90, 92, 148; groaning, 35, 73, 164; the jerks, 11, 74–76; and pain, 37, 76, 78, 92; Satanic influences, 31, 71, 79; screaming, 14, 36, 38, 70, 132, 144; shouting, 4, 7, 80, 135, 148 Boehm, Henry, 89 Bonner, Frederick, 109 Bradley, Mary Coy, 73, 90 Brekus, Catherine, 164 Brunson, Alfred, 78, 101, 104 Bush, President George W., 175, 202n25 Bushman, Richard, 136–37 Caldwell, Nancy, 90 Calvinism and the American Revolution , 59–60, 61 camp meetings, 99, 110–11, 113, 132. See also revivals Capers, William (bishop), 75, 118 Cartwright, Peter, 98, 104; and the frontier, 142–43; and the jerks, 74–75; on refinement, 141–42; and Satan, 88, 89 Cherokee Indians, 115, 125–26 Christian Advocate, 126, 148, 151, 155 Christian Advocate and Journal, 135, 137, 140, 145, 146, 156, 157 The Christian’s Manual (Merritt), 149 Christmas Conference of 1784, 66, 97 Church, Thomas, 29 civic theology, of early U.S., 95–96, 98, 110, 121 Civil War, 154, 155–60. See also American Methodists and the Civil War Civilization Fund Act (1819), 118 Clark, J. C. D., 60, 188n78 Clark, Laban, 114 Index 221   Clowe, Chauncey, 57 Coke, Thomas (bishop), 86, 138; missionary endeavors, 116–17, 196nn86,87,89 Cokesbury College, 138, 140, 196n89 communitas, 64, 166–67, 189n95, 201n10 conversion, 4, 6, 7, 180n10; bodily involvement in, 76–78, 92, 129; changes in experiences, 73–75, 132–33, 135, 143–45; fruits of, 13, 14; human ability in, 152–54; lack...