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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784620403321

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

0-19-774039-1

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

Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)

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

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.