Methodism in Kiravia



Methodism in Kiravia is the largest denominational family among the country's minority.

Isolated Protestant congregations adhering to Arminian theology appeared in Taństan-speaking areas of Northeast Kirav not long after the Reformation had spread to northern Levantia, but their influence was limited and it is unclear how long they survived. The first successful Methodist mission in Kiravia was led by the Caeric Rev. [Welshname ap Welshmynn] in western Etivéra. Other important centres of Methodist evangelism were the Sostórpalan Meadowlands in southern Hiterna and parts of the Western Highlands.

Much of the growth of the Methodist churches in Kiravia is attributable to their involvement in and other social justice and relief work. In a cultural context where a drinking problem was (and still is) barely recognised as a problem to begin with and alcoholic beverages are central to social life, traditional foodways, and cultural rites outside of the Islamic sector, Methodist churches provided recovering alcoholics with community support and alternative social activities not available from mainstream Kiravian society. Methodism experienced a second surge of growth on the Kiravian mainland during the post-Kirosocialist market liberalisation, as economic disruption and sweeping social changes brought renewed importance to Methodist initiatives.

The major Methodist church bodies in Kiravia are the Federated Methodist Church, Association of Free Churches of Kiravia, New Nazarean Church, and Coscivian Methodist Episcopal Church. Roughly half of the Ekxõ people, a National Minority living on the predominantly Catholic coast of Farravonia, are Methodists, as are many Pretannic Celtic-Kiravians. Kirav Methodist University in Valēka is the largest Protestant university in the country.