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Presbyterians in North Carolina : Race, Politics, and Religious Identity in Historical Perspective.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781572338845
  • 1572338849
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Presbyterians in North Carolina : Race, Politics, and Religious Identity in Historical Perspective.DDC classification:
  • 285 285.1756
LOC classification:
  • BX8947 .N8 C66 2012
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Preface; Part One: Beginnings; 1. Old World Origins and New World Horizons; 2. Atlantic World Bonds and Backcountry Settlers; 3. Revivalism, Reform, and Rancor in the Antebellum Piedmont; 4. Limited and Late; Part Two: Conflict, Renewal, and Reunion; 5. Both Read the Same Bible and Prayed to the Same God; 6. Out from the Gloomy Past; 7. Rebuilding in the Era of the New South; 8. A New Church in a New Era; Suggested Readings; Index.
Summary: 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 ex.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)457443

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Preface; Part One: Beginnings; 1. Old World Origins and New World Horizons; 2. Atlantic World Bonds and Backcountry Settlers; 3. Revivalism, Reform, and Rancor in the Antebellum Piedmont; 4. Limited and Late; Part Two: Conflict, Renewal, and Reunion; 5. Both Read the Same Bible and Prayed to the Same God; 6. Out from the Gloomy Past; 7. Rebuilding in the Era of the New South; 8. A New Church in a New Era; Suggested Readings; Index.

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 ex.