John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester.

John Coffey
Patricia A. Ward
Daniel L. Brunner
David Ceri Jones
Tom Schwanda
Isabel Rivers
Phyllis Mack
Andrew R. Holmes
D.W. Bebbington

"For the scholar of eighteenth-century evangelicalism, whether in the Church of England and Methodism, or in dissent and nonconformity, this collection of essays represents an important milestone in our understanding of the period and its spirituality. John Coffey has done an outstanding job in editing the collection and it will be vital reading for a generation of those seeking to understand religion in the long eighteenth century."--William Gibson, Anglican and Episcopal History

"This is a superb volume of essays by leading historians, with each of the contributors offering valuable insights into evangelical spirituality. The opening essay by John Coffey, on 'Sources and Trajectories of Evangelical Piety' sets the scene in a masterly way. After enjoying it I was eager to carry on reading. The rest of the essays lived up to the high standard set by Coffey... As befits a book of essays on Heart Religion, I found spiritual nourishment woven into what is a splendid tapestry of historical scholarship." -- Ian M Randall (Spurgeonâs College), Baptist Quarterly

"Heart Religion enlightens our understanding of the diverse sources and varied trajectories of evangelical piety. The volume will likely have a long shelf life as a seminal work on the theology and spirituality of early evangelicalism."-- Geordan Hammond, Church History and Religious Culture

"Heart Religion deserves to be in the hands of every student... The individual chapters are each insightful and suggestive, together building up a fuller picture in mosaic. But Coffeyâs outstanding introduction is worth its weight in gold, both as a synthesis of the recent literature and for its prescience in identifying emerging research questions." -- Andrew Atherstone (Tutor in History & Doctrine & Latimer Research Fellow, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford), Wesley and Methodist Studies

"[A]n engaging collection...This thoughtfully crafted volume delivers on its promise to offer new approaches to the foundations for and growth of pietist movements in England and Ireland from the late seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries."--Reading Religion

"Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in England and Ireland, 1690-1850, is an engaging collection of nine essays that offer literary, theological, and historical interpretations of emotional religious experiences in diverse evangelical communities. This thoughtfully crafted volume delivers on its promise to offer new approaches to the foundations for and growth of pietist movements in England and Ireland from the late seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries." --Reading Religion