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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809436203321

Autore

Nelson John K (John Kendall), <1933->

Titolo

A blessed company : parishes, parsons, and parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 / / John K. Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001

ISBN

979-88-908713-3-6

0-8078-7510-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (491 p.)

Disciplina

283/.755/09032

Soggetti

Church history

Virginia Church history 17th century

Virginia Church history 18th century

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 (p. 331-462) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Prologue; I.Parishes; II.Parsons; III.Divine Services. . .; IV.Parishioners; Epilogue; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of its parishioners. Drawing on extensive research in parish and county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and ri