Presbyterians in North Carolina
Subtitle: race, politics, and religious identity in historical perspective
By: Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Robert J. Cain
Contributors: Cain, Robert J.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781572338494
Subjects: Presbyterian Church; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Old World origins and New World horizons; title: Atlantic world bonds and backcountry settlers; title: Revivalism, reform, and rancor in the antebellum Piedmont; title: Limited and late; title: Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God; title: Out from the gloomy past; title: Rebuilding in the era of the new South; title: A new church in a new era.