tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post4380641528834822156..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: Methodist Families: A Review of Three Recent BooksPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-18653430688393220972012-04-14T06:57:08.076-06:002012-04-14T06:57:08.076-06:00Thanks, Curtis. I'm glad the reviews were help...Thanks, Curtis. I'm glad the reviews were helpful.<br /><br />And thanks for commenting and offering that correction, Dr. Auslander. I've updated the post.Christopherhttp://usreligion.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-79298720527443730032012-04-14T06:47:23.024-06:002012-04-14T06:47:23.024-06:00Thanks, I appreciate the review of my book "T...Thanks, I appreciate the review of my book "The Accidental Slaveowner." One point of historical correction: Bishop Andrew did not offer multiple enslaved people their freedom. The only one of the 45 or so enslaved persons whom he owned during his life to whom he offered freedom was Miss Kitty (Catherine Boyd). She declined in December 1841 the possibility of being sent to Liberia and thus remained enslaved in Oxford, Georgia for the rest of her life. Her three children remained enslaved until the end of the Civil War. Thanks-Mark AuslanderMrk Auslanderhttp://theaccidentalslaveowner.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-66807660503398765232012-04-13T11:24:55.475-06:002012-04-13T11:24:55.475-06:00Christopher,
thanks for these very helpful reviews...Christopher,<br />thanks for these very helpful reviews. Seems like these works build on in important ways books such as Donald Mathews', "Religion in the Old South," and Christine Heryman's "Southern Cross," both of which give a central place to Methodists and advance an argument about the significance of a move away from a general valoration of celibacy and the exemplary figure of a single itinerant minister charging into the frontier to that of the ideal of a more settled and formed family (as a model of piety and the locus of religion formation. Of course, Heryman suggests that church discipline, with its intense intervention in the personal lives of devout Methodists, eventually gave up some of these functions to the internal "judgment" of the family. I look forward to reading these books and perhaps incorporating some of their particular insights into my "Christianity and Slavery Class."Curtis J. Evansnoreply@blogger.com