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A perfect Babel of confusion : Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies / Randall Balmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balmer, Randall Herbert, author.
- Series:
- Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Religion in America series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dutch Americans--New York (State)--Religion.
- Dutch Americans.
- Dutch Americans--New Jersey--Religion.
- New York (State)--Religious life and customs.
- New York (State).
- New Jersey--Religious life and customs.
- New Jersey.
- New York (State)--Ethnic relations.
- New Jersey--Ethnic relations.
- Reformed Church in America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774039-1
- 1-4294-0141-9
- 0-19-534847-8
- 1-280-53246-7
- 0-19-802251-4
- OCLC:
- 476025934
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb01331 hdl
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