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Presbyterians in North Carolina : race, politics, and religious identity in historical perspective / Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Robert J. Cain.
- Title
- Presbyterians in North Carolina : race, politics, and religious identity in historical perspective / Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Robert J. Cain.
- Author
- Conser, Walter H.
- Publication
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Cain, Robert J.
- Description
- xvii, 251 p., [13] p. of plates : ill., map; 23 cm.
- 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 & mdash;while paying close attention to the relevant social, political, and religious contexts of the state and region & mdash;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.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781572338494 (pbk.)
- 1572338490 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2011041678
- OCLC
- 757838291
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library