...This chapter recounts how the Methodist population in central and western New York by the late 1820s had grown to the extent that church leaders appointed a committee to establish a college in Troy, New York. It explains that the proposed college would be nonsectarian but operated under...

...: Quaker Abiah Darby (1716–93), and Methodist Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (1739–1815). Their religious consciousness, alongside their opposition to contemporary gender roles, reflects the complex processes that scholars have too easily equated with secularization and modernization. The chapter argues...

...This concluding chapter assesses how, as the Second Great Awakening drew to a close, with Methodists and other mainline denominations encouraging more modesty in women, the religious outliers who had more radically broken sex and gender conventions were marginalized to contain their threat. Whether...

...This chapter talks about how the American Journal of Ithaca published a table with the Methodist population in the United States, which reported nearly fifty thousand Methodists in New York that were divided between the New York and Genesee conferences. The chapter highlights...