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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Conser, Walter H.
Imprint:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (272 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Presbyterian Church -- North Carolina -- History. Presbyterian Church. North Carolina. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11133322

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Other authors / contributors:	Cain, Robert J.
ISBN:	9781572338845 1572338849
Notes:	Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Conser, Walter H. Presbyterians in North Carolina : Race, Politics, and Religious Identity in Historical Perspective. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2011 9781572338494

Table of 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.