Faith and Fury: Eli Farmer on the Frontier, 1794-1881 By Riley B. Case

Abstract

Faith and Fury consists of extended passages from the memoir interpolated with Case’s analysis of how Farmer’s personal experiences illustrate broader historical trends. Case uses Farmer’s example not only to contend that Indiana played a crucial role in early Methodism but also to make the bolder claim that Hoosier revivalism was central “in development of the religious culture known as evangelical Christianity” (p. 111).