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Journal articles on the topic "Future of Methodist church in Fiji"

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Weir, Christine. "The 2014 Fiji Elections and the Methodist Church." Round Table 104, no. 2 (March 4, 2015): 165–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2015.1017261.

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Stobart, Andrew. "‘Storying the leading’: curating narratives of leadership in conversation with Vaughan S. Roberts and David Sims, Leading by Story." Holiness 4, no. 1 (June 16, 2020): 149–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2018-0002.

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AbstractThis article has been developed from a conversation held and recorded at the Wesley House community in January 2018, as part of its regular Thursday evening Methodist Studies sessions. The session used Roberts’ and Sims’ recently published book Leading by Story to consider how leadership is embodied in ministry. Sharing stories of leadership in Wesley House's cross-cultural community led to significant insights, which arose as one particular leadership story was explored using Roberts’ and Sims’ central concept of ‘curating stories’. This article offers the conversation as a reflective review of the book. Staff, students and friends of Wesley House present at the conversation represented many different contexts, including Methodist churches in the USA, Britain, Fiji, Hong Kong, Kenya, South Korea and Zambia.Leading by Story: Rethinking Church Leadership, Vaughan S. Roberts and David Sims (London: SCM Press, 2017), 256 pp, £25.00 pbk
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Joo, Sang-Rak. "A Study on Church Planting Strategy of The United Methodist Church for Future Mission and Evangelism." Theology and Praxis 69 (May 31, 2020): 667–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.14387/jkspth.2020.69.667.

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Weaver, Andrew J., Jack W. Berry, and Stephen M. Pittel. "Ego Development in Fundamentalist and Nonfundamentalist Protestants." Journal of Psychology and Theology 22, no. 3 (September 1994): 215–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009164719402200307.

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This study was designed to investigate the comparative ego development, religious orientation, and doctrinal beliefs of three Protestant groups: life-long fundamentalists (n=25), fundamentalist converts (n=25), and nonfundamentalist converts (n=25). Subjects from the Southern Baptist Church (fundamentalists) and United Methodist Church (nonfundamentalists) were used. Three instruments were employed: the Wiggins Content Scale of Religious Fundamentalism from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test of Ego Development, and Allport's Religious Orientation Scale. The fundamentalist and nonfundamentalist groups were doctrinally different; however, the groups did not differ in levels of ego development. The two fundamentalist groups scored higher on Allport's measure of intrinsic religious orientation. Methodological suggestions were made for future research of fundamentalists.
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Orton, Andrew. "The diverse and contested diaconate: Why understanding this ministry is crucial to the future of the Church." International Journal of Practical Theology 16, no. 2 (May 2013): 260–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijpt-2012-0017.

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Abstract The diaconate has attracted widespread renewed interest in the contemporary context, whilst being the focus of considerable international ecumenical, social and theological debate. This article shows how the deacon’s role embodies many of the pressing issues facing churches across the world today, particularly through its position as a ministry at the interface between church and wider society. These issues include debates over the nature of ministry, the relationship between different lay and ordained ministries, issues of gender, status and power, and how churches should relate to wider society. To explore these issues, the article draws on research into the diaconate in one particular denomination, the Methodist Church in Britain, and sets this in a wider comparative ecumenical and historical context. The resulting analysis shows how it is crucially important for churches to reflect internationally on diverse experiences and understandings of deacons’ ministry, and own collectively the inherent challenges that this ministry can present. Deacons are shown to have a liminal ministry that through its very existence and practice can challenge understandings of status and power that can exist between different groups such as those who are lay and ordained, those in the church and those in the wider community. Reflecting on this liminal ministry can help churches as they seek to make connections between worship, mission and service, by enabling the whole Church to put their faith into practice in their everyday lives as they engage with wider society. This is especially important in terms of reflecting carefully on the Church’s response to those who are suffering, disadvantaged or marginalised.
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Kumalo, Raymond Simangaliso. "FROM CONSTANCE OOSTHUIZEN TO PURITY MALINGA: THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY IN ORDINATION IN THE METHODIST CHURCH OF SOUTHERN AFRICA." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 42, no. 2 (December 8, 2016): 175–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/1413.

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The researcher believes that while in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) women have been ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament since 1976, they remain a minority numerically and are still marginalised in leadership. As a result ordained women remain the most unrecognised and underutilised group in the MCSA. Few women ministers have held leadership positions during this period, particularly primary leadership positions. This article enquires into the experiences (or, ‘acceptance’) of these women, the reasons for the minority representation, and reflects on the future of representative ordained ministry. A theoretical framework of feminist ecclesiology is used as an approach. Primary research provides statistical data upon which the assessment of progress towards gender equality is based. The impact of culture upon institutional gender representation is discussed, together with equality of opportunity in principle and practice. Reference is made to gender equality in other institutions, both secular and religious. The article reflects upon the leadership of the MCSA towards gender equality in the ordained ministry, and some conclusions are drawn and recommendations suggested for the future.
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Cuadra-Martínez, David, José Sandoval-Díaz, Daniel Perez-Zapata, Pablo Castro-Carrasco, Douglas Véliz-Vergara, Javiera Guzman-Ávalos, and Gabriel Ramos-Thompson. "Helping One’s Neighbor: Teaching and Learning Prosocial Behavior in a Religious Community." Religions 10, no. 9 (September 5, 2019): 515. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10090515.

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The aim of this study was to describe and interpret the subjective theories that support the development, teaching, and learning of prosocial behavior in a Pentecostal Methodist church located in the Atacama Region (Chile). The study was descriptive-interpretative, with qualitative methodology and a case study design. We worked with 140 church members, employing qualitative observation, episodic interviews, and discussion groups. The data were analyzed using 2 techniques: thematic coding and grounded theory. Results make it possible to describe (a) the context where prosociality is developed, taught, and learned, (b) the subjective meaning of helping behaviors, and (c) community members’ subjective theories about the development of teaching-learning. In the discussion, results are analyzed considering the available scientific evidence and the limitations of the present study. Also, new questions are presented which future research may explore to generate a formal theory about the development, teaching, and learning of prosocial behavior in community contexts.
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Leach, Jane. "The end of theological education – is wisdom the principal thing?" Holiness 1, no. 1 (April 5, 2020): 21–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2015-0002.

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AbstractThis article invites reflection on the theological purposes of the education of church leaders. It is conceived as a piece of practical theology that arises from the challenge to the Wesley House Trustees in Cambridge to reconceive and re-articulate their vision for theological education in a time of turbulence and change. I reflect on Wesley House’s inheritance as a community of formation (paideia) and rigorous scholarship (Wissenschaft); and on the opportunities offered for the future of theological education in this context by a serious engagement with both the practices and concepts of phronēsis and poiēsis and a dialogical understanding of biblical wisdom, as Wesley House seeks to offer itself as a cross-cultural community of prayer and study to an international Methodist constituency.
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Leonard, Bill J. "Book Review: Ecumenism Striving for Unity and Diversity, All These Lutherans, and are We Yet Alive? The Future of the United Methodist Church." Review & Expositor 84, no. 3 (August 1987): 532–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003463738708400336.

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Baruth, Meghan, and Sara Wilcox. "Psychosocial mediators of physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption in the Faith, Activity, and Nutrition programme." Public Health Nutrition 18, no. 12 (December 8, 2014): 2242–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980014002808.

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AbstractObjectivePerforming and publishing mediator analyses, whether significant or null, provides insight into where research efforts should focus and will assist in developing effective and powerful behaviour change interventions. The present study examined whether self-efficacy, social support and church support mediated changes in leisure-time physical activity (PA) and fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption in a faith-based intervention.DesignA 15-month PA and F&V intervention, guided by the structural ecological model, targeted the social, cultural and policy influences within the church. Outcomes and mediators were measured at baseline and follow-up. Data were collected from 2007 to 2011. MacKinnon’s product of coefficients tested for mediation.SettingSixty-eight African Methodist Episcopal churches in South Carolina, USA.SubjectsFive hundred and eighty-two (PA) and 588 (F&V) church members.ResultsDespite the significant increases in PA and F&V consumption, none of the hypothesized mediators were significant mediators of change in PA or F&V consumption. When examining each path of the mediation model, the intervention did not change any of the hypothesized mediators. However, changes in some mediators were associated with changes in outcomes.ConclusionsAlthough there was no significant mediation, the association between changes in mediators and changes in PA and/or F&V consumption suggest that these variables likely play some role in changing these behaviours. Future studies should consider mediation analyses a priori, putting careful thought into the types of measures used and the timing of those measures, while also being cognizant of participant and staff burden. Finding a balance will be fundamental in successfully understanding how interventions exert their effects.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Future of Methodist church in Fiji"

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Williams, Beverley Anne Harwood, and bevwilliams@bigpond com. "The Advent of Methodism and the I Taukei: The Methodist Church in Fijian Nation-making." La Trobe University. School of Social Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology Program, 2008. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20091221.121517.

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This thesis is an historical anthropology of the role of the Methodist Church in Fiji, from the arrival of Methodist missionaries in 1830. At that time Fiji was a fragmented society. Fijians lived in villages on various islands, so there was no cohesion within the society. The insertion of Methodism into traditional Fijian society irreversibly changed the society, and this thesis traces the key changes that occurred. The rise to prominence of Chief Cakobau from Bau Island marks the beginning of unification of a fragmented Fiji. He formed the first Fijian government in 1871.The British Colonial authorities and the Methodists were also centrally involved in unification and the development of a national society as they set up structures to govern and evangelise the Fijians. However, the thesis argues that with the arrival of Indo-Fijians as indentured labourers to Fiji in 1879, the seeds of polarisation were planted and Indo-Fijians were left out of the frame of Fijian society. The thesis traces the involvement of Methodism, always in close relationship with the state in the twin processes of unification and polarisation. The coups that have changed the political landscape of Fiji served to alter the relationship between the Methodist Church and the state. A schism occurred in the Methodist Church following the 1987 coup, where violence against some ministers occurred, and the Methodist constitution was suspended. Members belonging to i taukei Methodist hierarchy who insisted on Fijian paramountcy to the exclusion of Indo-Fijians have been separated irretrievably from members of the Methodist hierarchy who believe in an inclusive society irrespective of race. Increasing diversity of socio-economic status allied with hierarchical divides and different interpretations of the Church�s mission have generated conflict in the Church and society at large. Diminution of the power of the Methodist Church in Fiji has occurred since 1987, and there are both internal and external factors at work which continue this trend. The various factors influencing the Church in the present along with its future prospects are discussed.
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Williams, Beverley. "The advent of Methodism and the I Taukei the Methodist Church in Fijian nation-making /." Bundoora, Victoria : La Trobe University, 2008. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/39301.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- La Trobe University, 2008.
Description based on print version record. "A thesis in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Anthropology [to the] School of Social Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-166)
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Degei, Sekove Bigitibau. "The Challenge to Fijian Methodism - the vanua, identity, ethnicity and change." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2481.

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Christianity is the dominant religion in the Fiji islands today. However, this was not the case in the early eighteen hundreds. Back then, the Fijians had lived a life and culture of their own that was not known to the world. This all changed when different groups of Europeans started to arrive in the early eighteen hundreds. Of these, the group that had the most influence on the Fijians was the English Wesleyan missionaries. The result of their evangelism was the establishment of the Methodist church in 1835. This church is the dominant denomination in Christian Fiji and has been closely meshed with concepts of Fijian identity. However, the church's dominance is being challenged, partly because of the entwining of concepts of church and the vanua (land, people). Additionally the arrival of other, new denominations with their different ideologies has also affected the standing and influence of the Methodists. In this thesis the way in which the missionaries had introduced themselves to the Fijians and how they influenced and converted them to Christianity are outlined. This was not a one-way affair, where only the missionaries' ways of living and ideologies were involved. They first had to accept the structure and some of the customs of the vanua before their mission could proceed. It was found that the influence and ideologies brought by the missionaries was incorporated into the vanua ideologies and has formed the basis of what became the Fijian way of life. When Fiji became a colony of Britain in 1874, the incorporation of the vanua and Methodist Christian ideologies and structure was well established. However, all these views, and the previously accepted local views of Fijian culture, have changed in response to the challenges from the new denominations. The effect of these new approaches and ideologies on the vanua and the Methodists in Fiji is discussed. The outcome of this on-going situation is not yet clear.
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Ward, Daniel Thomas. "Identifying critical areas of need for the future development of teaching lesson plans for the India Free Methodist Church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Dundon, Colin George History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Raicakacaka : 'walking the road' from colonial to post-colonial mission : the life, work and thought of the Reverend Dr. Alan Richard Tippett, Methodist missionary in Fiji, anthropologist and missiologist, 1911-1988." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of History, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38694.

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This thesis contributes to the literature on the history of the transition from colonial to post-colonial in the Pacific. It explores the contribution of an individual to this transition, Rev. Dr. Alan Richard Tippett, as a focus for illuminating the struggles in the transitions and the development of post-colonial theory for mission. Alan Richard Tippet sailed to Fiji as an ordained Methodist missionary in 1941. He was a product of a Methodist parsonage and heir to the evangelical and revival tendencies of the Cornish Methodism of his family. He began his missionary career steeped in the colonial visions of the mission enterprise fostered by the Board of Missions of his church. He was eager to study anthropology but was given no chance to do so before he left Australia. He pursued his study of anthropology and history in Fiji and began to question the paternalism of colonial theory. Early in his time in Fiji he made the decision to join with those who sought change and the death of colonial mission. In his work as a circuit minister, theological educator, writer and administrator he worked to this end. He developed his talent for writing and research, encouraging the Fijian church to take pride in its past achievements. He became alienated from the administrators of the Australasian Methodist Board of Missions and could find no place in the Australian church. In 1961 he left Fiji and began a course of study at the newly formed Institute of Church Growth in Eugene, Oregon. This led him into the orbit of Donald McGavran and the newly emerging church growth theory of Christian mission. Although his desire was to enhance the study of post-colonial mission in Australia he could not find a position to support him even after he gained a PhD in anthropology from the University of Oregon. After research in the Solomon Islands he returned to the USA to assist Donald McGavran in the formation of the now famous School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. While at Fuller he exercised considerable influence in the development of missiological theory and especially the application of anthropological studies in post-colonial mission. Although he contributed to both the ecumenical and evangelical debates on mission, he found himself caught up in the bitter debates of the 1960s and 1970s between them and, despite all efforts to maintain links, lost contact with the ecumenical wing. Retiring to Australia in 1977 he found that his world reputation was not recognised in his native land. He continued his work apace, although he was deeply saddened by the ignorance he found in Australia and by his continued rejection. He finally donated his library to St. Mark???s National Theological Centre. He died in 1988 in Canberra.
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Wagner, Mark Wesley. "A new future for an historic Methodist Church." Thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/41316.

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The United Methodist Church (UMC) in America has seen a steady decrease in the number of millennials who regularly participate in the life of the church. In my own church, Ellensburg United Methodist Church (EUMC), one of the fears many congregants have is that while we seek to adapt in order to reach millennials, we may forfeit our Wesleyan heritage. This project seeks to develop a strategic plan to guide the growth and development of EUMC that’s focused on engaging millennials and increasing the congregation’s knowledge of our Wesleyan heritage, utilizing Aubrey Malphur’s model for advanced strategic church planning.
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Dundon, Colin George. "Raicakacaka "walking the road" from colonial to post-colonial mission : the life, work and thought of the Reverend Dr. Alan Richard Tippett, Methodist missionary in Fiji, anthropologist and missiologist, 1911-1988 /." 2000. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/19184.

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Books on the topic "Future of Methodist church in Fiji"

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Bradbury, Ruth M. Fiji Wilson: Wesleyan missionary and minister : Fiji and Britain. Campbell, A.C.T: Ruth M. Bradbury, 2010.

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Schäfer, Franz W. The United Methodist Church in Europe: Connection, mission, future. Nashville, TN: United Methodist Church, Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1985.

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And are we yet alive?: The future of the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1986.

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(Ipswich), Museum Street Methodist Church. Museum Street Methodist Church, Ipswich: Past, present and future. Ipswich: Museum Street Methodist Church, 2000.

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Tauga, Vulaono, ed. A shaking of the land: William Cross and the origins of Christianity in Fiji. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 2005.

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Jones, Scott J. The future of the United Methodist Church: Seven vision pathways. Nashville [Tenn.]: Abingdon Press, 2010.

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J, Jones Scott, and Ough Bruce R, eds. The future of the United Methodist Church: Seven vision pathways. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2010.

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Remember the future: Praying for the church and change. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012.

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Generation rising: A future with hope for the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011.

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Thompson, Barbara Ricks. The Central Jurisdiction recovery project: Preserving our past-- building our future--. Edited by United Methodist Church (U.S.). Commission on Religion and Race. Washington, D.C: General Commission on Religion and Race [United Methodist Church], 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Future of Methodist church in Fiji"

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Kanailagi, Reverend Tomasi. "A PUBLIC STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH IN FIJI." In Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji. ANU Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/c.12.2008.28.

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Tuwere, Iliatia Sevati. "STATEMENT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH IN FIJI AND ROTUMA ON THE ARMED SEIZURE OF GOVERNMENT." In Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji. ANU Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/c.12.2008.27.

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Watson, Kevin M. "Embodying Methodist Theology." In Old or New School Methodism?, 229–77. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190844516.003.0006.

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This chapter explores the diverging conceptions of holy living in Simpson and Roberts in depth. The chapter argues that Simpson was most concerned with growing and expanding the Methodist Episcopal Church, often compromising on what had been core commitments of Methodism in the hope of gaining a broader audience and expanding the institution. Roberts, on the other hand, believed that these same compromises were leading to a sacrifice of Methodism’s mission to “spread scriptural holiness.” The chapter outlines disagreements about how holiness should be expressed in the lives of Methodists, focusing in particular on differences in church buildings, dress and personal wealth, secret societies, and slavery. The chapter concludes by discussing the different visions for the future of American Methodism that Simpson and Roberts had, as a result of these different understandings of the importance of holiness and how it should be expressed in the lives of Methodists.
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Abraham, William J. "9. Future prospects of Methodism." In Methodism: A Very Short Introduction, 107–20. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198802310.003.0009.

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‘Future prospects of Methodism’ considers the main options currently in play for the survival of Methodism. If Methodism is to have a future, there needs to be a recovery of nerve about its origins, its message, its practices, and its mission. Equally there needs to be a fresh way of thinking about Methodism as a full-scale church in the history of Christianity. The present prospects of fresh division open up the way for a new conversation about Methodist identity that can shape what it will become in the future. One thing is sure: Methodism will survive.
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Gonzalez, Aston. "Religion, Rights, and the Promises of Reconstruction." In Visualizing Equality, 197–232. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659961.003.0008.

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This chapter investigates how African American activist-artists adopted new strategies to realize the promises of Reconstruction and partnered often with leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church leadership to accomplish these. Black image producers used their reputations and successes to encourage opportunities for, and exercise newly granted rights to, black people after the Civil War. They funded black education, supported black Reconstruction politicians, and celebrated constitutional amendments; one even attained political office. They crafted images that revealed their investment in the visual culture of John Brown, black Union veterans, and the future of Cuba. Just as these black activist artists backed the AME Church, so the AME Church leadership repeatedly encouraged its readers to collect, reflect upon, and draw inspiration from their images and the messages that they communicated.
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