From a far country : Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic world / Catharine Randall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randall, Catharine, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Camisards--United States--History.

Camisards.

Huguenots--United States--History.

Huguenots.

Protestantism--France--History.

Protestantism.

Protestantism--United States--History.

United States--Civilization--French influences.

United States.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States--Religion--To 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In From a Far Country Catharine Randall examines Huguenots and their less-known cousins the Camisards, offering a fresh perspective on the important role these French Protestants played in settling the New World. The Camisard religion was marked by more ecstatic expression than that of the Huguenots, not unlike differences between Pentecostals and Protestants. Both groups were persecuted and emigrated in large numbers, becoming participants in the broad circulation of ideas that characterized the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Randall vividly portrays this French Protestant diaspora through the lives of three figures: Gabriel Bernon, who led a Huguenot exodus to Massachusetts and moved among the commercial elite; Ezâechiel Carrâe, a Camisard who influenced Cotton Mather's theology; and Elie Neau, a Camisard-influenced writer and escaped galley slave who established North America's first school for blacks. Like other French Protestants, these men were adaptable in their religious views, a quality Randall points out as quintessentially American. In anthropological terms they acted as code shifters who manipulated multiple cultures. While this malleability ensured that French Protestant culture would not survive in externally recognizable terms in the Americas, Randall shows that the culture's impact was nonetheless considerable"--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Camisards and Huguenots: old and new world

Crisis in the Cevennes

Survival strategies: prophets, preachers, and paradigms

The testimonials: the French prophets and the Inspires of the Holy Spirit

"From a farr countrie": an introduction to the French Protestant experience in New England

Protestant and profiteer: Gabriel Bernon in the new world

Cotton Mather, Ezechiel Carre, and the French connection

Elie Neau and French Protestant pietism in colonial New York

Conclusion: "A habitation elsewhere": Huguenots, Camisards, and the transatlantic experience.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781282553415

1282553410

9780820336077

0820336076

OCLC:

593297290

Publisher Number:

heb40074 hdl