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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964875803321

Autore

Conser Walter H

Titolo

Presbyterians in North Carolina : race, politics, and religious identity in historical perspective / / Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Robert J. Cain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2012

ISBN

9786613655141

9781280678219

1280678216

9781572338845

1572338849

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CainRobert J

Disciplina

285/.1756

Soggetti

Presbyterian Church - North Carolina - History

Christian sects - North Carolina - History

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

Old World origins and New World horizons -- Atlantic world bonds and backcountry settlers -- Revivalism, reform, and rancor in the antebellum Piedmont -- Limited and late -- Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God -- Out from the gloomy past -- Rebuilding in the era of the new South -- A new church in a new era.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is the first comprehensive overview of North Carolina  Presbyterians to appear in more than a hundred years. Drawing on  congregational and administrative histories, personal memoirs, and  recent scholarship-while paying close attention to the relevant social,  political, and religious contexts of the state and region-Walter Conser and Robert Cain go beyond older approaches to denominational history by  focusing on the identity and meaning of the Presbyterian experience in  the Old North State from the seventeenth through the twentieth  centuries.  Conser and Cain