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A perfect babel of confusion : Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies
- Title
- A perfect babel of confusion : Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies / Randall H. Balmer.
- Author
- Balmer, Randall Herbert.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 258 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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. Balmer argues that the combination of political intrigue, English cultural imperialism, and internal socio-economic tensions eventually drove the Dutch away from their hereditary customs, language, and culture. He shows how this process, which played itself out most visibly and poignantly in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1664 and the American Revolution, illustrates the difficulty of maintaining non-English cultures and institutions in an increasingly English world. A Perfect Babel of Confusion redresses some of the historiographical neglect of the Middle Colonies and, in the process, sheds new light on Dutch colonial culture.
- Series Statement
- Religion in America series
- Uniform Title
- Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
- Subject
- Reformed Church > New York (State) > History
- Reformed Church > New Jersey > History
- Dutch Americans > New York (State) > Religion
- Dutch Americans > New Jersey > Religion
- Dutch Americans > Religion
- Ethnic relations
- Reformed Church
- Gereformeerden
- Nederlanders
- Cultuurconflicten
- Engelsen
- New York (State) > Religious life and customs
- New Jersey > Religious life and customs
- New York (State) > Ethnic relations
- New Jersey > Ethnic relations
- New Jersey
- New York (State)
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 227-245.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0195058739
- 9780195058734
- LCCN
- 88025241
- OCLC
- ocm18350033
- 18350033
- SCSB-1726101
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library