{"product_id":"9780938162445","title":"Encoding Methodism: Telling and Retelling Narratives of Wesleyan Origins","description":"\u003cp\u003eMethodists love to tell the story and Methodist churches have consistently told and re-told the narrative of their eighteenth-century founding by John (and sometimes Charles) Wesley as a way of describing the distinctive identity of their religious communities. This book offers a comprehensive and critically documented account of the development of these narratives of Wesleyan origins and the ways in which they attempted to describe or encode the identity of Wesleyan\/Methodist communities. This is not a cynical account of how interpreters have simply written their own agenda into the narrative (and that has happened); rather it shows in many cases how the unique position and contexts of narrators have enabled them to see things that really happened in the eighteenth-century Wesleyan movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do communities transmit their identities across generations? One way is to tell narratives of their origins. This book examines how Wesleyan and Methodist communities have told and re-told narratives of their origins to encode and transmit their communal identities across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"United Methodist General Board of Higher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018859593968,"sku":"9780938162445","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780938162445_p0.jpg?v=1763878299","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780938162445","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}