A "Moment" in American Religious Life

Woodward locates the Methodist Moment as having begun in modern U.S. politics back in 1972, but he notes that it passed quickly after the flop of Methodist George McGovernâ??s presidential campaign. Yet Woodward finds good reason to talk about a named â??momentâ? because, as it slows or morphs, it leaves behind a changed landscapeâ??think of a glacial moraine, which marks where a glacier once changed a mountainside, then lives on in stony and rocky residue. We live off that residue in the new landscape. Woodward lists many features of this Methodist influence in political movements, some of which he does not favor at all, and others which have to be reckoned with anew.