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Conscience and Conflict : Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century

Some of the material in chapters 2-3 builds on articles published in Methodist History 41, 1 (2002), Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 85, 1 (2003) and Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society 53, 6 (2002). None of these articles were returned to RAE 2008. The chapters in the book drawn on some of the examples and cases from these articles, but are based on much more extensive research, conducted after the articles were written. The chapters also develop a more general argument about the changing responses within British Methodism to war and peace when seen in long-term perspective.

This book is based on an extensive range of primary sources, both archival and printed, which took more than five years to collect (Church publications, private papers, non-digitised newspapers and pamphlets, etc). It makes use of a large literature beyond that traditionally associated with “Methodist Studies”, arguing that the study of religion in international affairs should feature more prominently in the historiography of twentieth-century International History. The book’s innovative use of a “soft” realist perspective to critique Methodism’s engagement with international affairs has drawn on diverse sets of scholarly literatures to conceptualise a new contribution.