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The Old German Baptist Brethren : faith, farming, and change in the Virginia Blue Ridge / Charles D. Thompson, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German Americans--Virginia--Franklin County--History.
- German Americans.
- Brethren (Church of the Brethren)--Virginia--Franklin County--Social life and customs.
- Brethren (Church of the Brethren).
- German Americans--Virginia--Franklin County--Social life and customs.
- German Americans--Virginia--Franklin County--Interviews.
- Farm life--Virginia--Franklin County.
- Farm life.
- Franklin County (Va.)--History.
- Franklin County (Va.).
- Franklin County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
- Franklin County (Va.)--Religious life and customs.
- Old German Baptist Brethren--Virginia--Franklin County--History.
- Old German Baptist Brethren.
- Old German Baptist Brethren--Virginia--Franklin County--Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 219 p. : ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since arriving nearly 250 years ago in Franklin County, Virginia, German Baptists have maintained their faith and farms by relying on their tightly knit community for spiritual and economic support. Today, with their land and livelihoods threatened by the encroachment of neighboring communities, the construction of a new highway, and competition from corporate megafarms, the German Baptists find themselves forced to adjust.Charles D. Thompson Jr.'s The Old German Baptist Brethren combines oral history with ethnography and archival research--as well as his own family ties to the Franklin County community--to tell the story of the Brethren's faith on the cusp of impending change. The book traces the transformation of their operations from frontier subsistence farms to cash-based enterprises, connecting this with the wider confluence of agriculture and faith in colonial America. Using extensive interviews, Thompson looks behind the scenes at how individuals interpret their own futures in farming, their hope for their faith, and how the failure of religiously motivated agriculture figures in the larger story of the American farmer.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Nonresistance and change
- Part I : saints in the wilderness
- The ancient order
- The Carolina Road
- Part II : wilderness no more
- Raising citizens
- Community-based agriculture
- Adversity and perseverance
- Membership
- Hope
- Epilogue : they go quietly.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613044112
- 9781283044110
- 1283044110
- 9780252092657
- 0252092651
- OCLC:
- 785782173
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