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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458000503321

Autore

Balmer Randall Herbert

Titolo

A perfect babel of confusion : Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies / / Randall H. Balmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1989

©1989

ISBN

1-4294-0141-9

0-19-534847-8

1-280-53246-7

0-19-802251-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 pages)

Collana

Religion in America Series

Disciplina

285.7/747

Soggetti

Reformed Church - New York (State) - History

Reformed Church - New Jersey - History

Dutch Americans - New York (State) - Religion

Dutch Americans - New Jersey - Religion

Electronic books.

New York (State) Religious life and customs

New Jersey Religious life and customs

New York (State) Ethnic relations

New Jersey Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; 1. Confusion and Scattering: Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Demise of Reformed Hegemony; 2. Religion in Great Danger: Leisler's Rebellion and Its Repercussions; 3. A Most Unhappy Division: The Ministry Act, Demographic Changes, and the Rise of Frontier Pietism; 4. Fit for Catechizing: The Long Island Schism and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; 5. Flames of Contention: The Raritan Dispute and the Spread of Pietism; 6. Peculiar Conversions: Revival and Reaction in New Jersey and New York; 7. Consumed by Quarrels: Dutch Religion in the Revolutionary Era

APPENDIX A: Chronology of Dutch Reformed Churches APPENDIX B:



Prosopography of Colonial Dutch Clergy; APPENDIX C: New York City Property Valuations, 1674; APPENDIX D: Consistory Members of New York City Church, 1689-1701; APPENDIX E: Dutch Reformed Polity; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the interaction of the Dutch and the English in colonial New York and New Jersey, this study charts the decline of European culture in North America.