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Hope's Promise [electronic resource] : Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry / S. Scott Rohrer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957-
- Series:
- Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- Religion and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--North Carolina--Forsyth County.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Christian communities--North Carolina--Forsyth County--History.
- Christian communities.
- Evangelicalism--Social aspects--North Carolina--Forsyth County--History.
- Evangelicalism.
- Ethnicity--North Carolina--Forsyth County--History.
- Ethnicity.
- Acculturation--North Carolina--Forsyth County--History.
- Acculturation.
- British Americans--North Carolina--Forsyth County--History.
- British Americans.
- Moravians--North Carolina--Forsyth County--History.
- Moravians.
- Forsyth County (N.C.)--Religious life and customs.
- Forsyth County (N.C.).
- Forsyth County (N.C.)--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
- Summary:
- This eloquent study describes the complex process of assimilation that occurred among multi-ethnic groups in Wachovia, the evangelical community that settled a 100,000-acre tract in Piedmont North Carolina from 1750 to 1860. It counters commonplace notions that evangelicalism was a divisive force in the antebellum South, demonstrating instead the ability of evangelical beliefs and practices to unify diverse peoples and foster shared cultural values. In Hope's Promise, Scott Rohrer dissects the internal workings of the ecumenical Moravian movement at Wachovia-
- Contents:
- Prelude : the Northern years
- A community of believers
- An Anglo-German world
- Becoming "American" : the Revolutionary years
- Becoming "Southern" : the slaveholding years
- The new world of the 1830's and beyond.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-256) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8756-0
- OCLC:
- 879576388
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