{"slug": "methodism", "label": "Methodism", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33203", "qid": "Q33203", "description": "group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity", "entries": 17, "years": 11, "span": [1729, 1850], "span_label": ["1729 CE", "1850 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["Methodist", "Methodist Church", "Methodist minister"], "related": [{"slug": "john-wesley", "label": "John Wesley", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "city-of-london", "label": "City of London", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "moravian-church", "label": "Moravian Church", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cornwall", "label": "Cornwall", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "devon", "label": "Devon", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1729, "year_label": "1729 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 6", "text": "October 6 – Sarah Crosby, English Methodist preacher, the first female (d. 1804)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368871381#Births", "title": "1729", "revid": 1368871381, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1738, "year_label": "1738 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – John Wesley, newly returned from America, experiences a spiritual rebirth at a Moravian Church meeting in Aldersgate, in the City of London, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day (his younger brother Charles had a similar experience three days earlier).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363165384#April–June", "title": "1738", "revid": 1363165384, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1738, "year_label": "1738 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 24", "text": "24 May – John Wesley, newly returned from America, experiences a spiritual rebirth at a Moravian Church meeting in Aldersgate in the City of London, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day. 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