Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865
Stephen, L. Longenecker
By surveying the religiously pluralistic setting of the eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Shenandoah Valley, Longenecker reveals how the fabric of American pluralism was woven. Calling worldliness the "mainstream" and otherworldliness, "outsiderness," Shenandoah Religion describes the transition certain denominations made in becoming mainstream and the resistance of others in maintaining distinctive dress, manners, social relations, economies, and apolitical viewpoints.
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Jahr:
2002
Verlag:
Baylor University Press
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
247
ISBN 10:
0918954835
ISBN 13:
9780918954831
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english, 2002