Cities of Zion

The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America

Samuel Avery-Quinn

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9798881884802
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America follows Methodists and holiness advocates from their urban worlds of mid-century New York City and Philadelphia out into the wilderness where they found green worlds of religious retreat in that most traditional of Methodist theaters: the camp meeting. Samuel Avery-Quinn examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first Century. These transformations are a window into the religious worlds of middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape.

This study comprehensively analyzes camp meeting revivalism in America to offer a larger narrative to the historical movement. Avery-Quinn studies how Methodists and holiness advocates sought to sanctify leisure and recreation, struggled to balance a sense of community while mired in American gender role and race relation norms, wrestled with the governance and town planning of their communities, and confronted the shifting economic fortunes and continuing theological controversies of the Progressive Era.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Cities of Zion
• Series Page
• Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Saints in the City
• Chapter 2
• From Parlor to Forest Temple
• Chapter 3
• The Sanctifying Power of Leisure1
• Chapter 4
• A City by the Sea1
• Chapter 5
• Town Planning in the Gate of Heaven1
• Chapter 6
• Two Parties in Beulah
• Chapter 7
• Enduring Zions
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author