The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century 2nd Ed.

Expands and updates the only general interpretation of the rise and influence of perfectionist revivalism in America and Europe. Fifteen years of expanding research on the holiness movement reinforce this volume's continuing seminal value to cultural and social research. With a new concluding essay. ...this volume stretches out hands to the centuries either side, and crosses the divides of cultures and continents to offer a study as pertinent for now as for those curious about yesteryear...readably chronicled in some detail, copiously referenced; yet the sense of the larger story is always retained... --METHODIST RECORDER