Methodist and Holiness Churches

The Methodist and Holiness churches recorded in this atlas, the Protestant tradition that derives from the life and teaching of John Wesley together with the Holiness movement that emerged chiefly within nineteenth-century Methodism, from the United Methodist and African Methodist bodies to the Wesleyan Church, the Church of the Nazarene and The Salvation Army. This group holds African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), Church of the Nazarene, Free Methodist Church, Global Methodist Church, Methodism, The Salvation Army, The United Methodist Church, Wesleyan Church. Placing these churches together lets a reader compare one church family at a time, from the tradition as a whole to its national and denominational bodies, and follow how each body describes its own governance, worship and history. Each entry keeps its own description, sources and Browse By pages.