[PW] Re: Church Ritual?--Progress Report

[Shari Haber]

Womb at ts-

First, I want to thank everyone who has replied to my query and/or has 
suggested Methodist orgs. to contact. I've contacted over half, and all 
claim that it is not part of the ordained Methodist ritual, and that 
they have never hear of it.

Has anybody seen a ritual where one person grasps the other person's 
arm/wrist finger-by-finger, in any context?  If so, I would very much 
like to hear about it. Anybody? TIA.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Winters, Murl" <WintersM at evangel.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:34 PM
Subject: [PW] Re: Church Ritual?


> Mike's and Deb's points are well made.
> My original posting only mentioned the three groups that were listed
> under Methodist in the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 
> 2006.
> If the Media Contact persons within these are unfamiliar with the 
> ritual
> (and the patron is unable to help with any more specific information),
> the search could become much more lengthy.
> For the archives additional resources should be mentioned:
> J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of American Religions, Wilmington,
> NC: McGrath Publishing Company, 1978. 2 vol. provides information on
> some 30 Methodist groups in his Chapter 6 of vol. 1, p.161-198.
> And,
> Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the
> United States and Canada, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978, 3 vol., 
> has
> in vol. 2: Protestant Denominations, on p.533-628, information on at
> least 23 Methodist groups.
> Murl Winters
> Assistant Library Director
> Evangel University
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael J. Lowrey
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:38 AM
> To: list at project-wombat.org
> Subject: [PW] Re: Church Ritual?
>
> On 10/19/06, Deb Fuller <debfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is also the Southern Methodist Church:
>> http://www.southernmethodistchurch.org/
>>
>> The Southern Methodist Congregational Church:
> http://www.scmchurch.com/
>>
>> And the Free Methodist Church: http://www.freemethodistchurch.org/
>>
>> Plus there are the African Methodist Episcopal:
>> http://www.ame-church.com/  the Christian Methodist Episcopal:
>> http://www.c-m-e.org/, and African Methodist Episcopal Zion church
>> (whose website is defunct). These are traditionally "African 
>> American"
>> churches.
>
>
> I believe there are also various "Wesleyan" bodies which derive from
> Methodism, and may consider themselves the "true" Methodists; but I
> don't know whether they use that term.
>
>
> -- 
> Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
>
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