One true church an American story of race, family, and religion Susan B. Ridgely

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridgely, Susan B. (Susan Bales), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church (Newton Grove, N.C.)--History.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church (Newton Grove, N.C.).

Catholics--North Carolina--Newton Grove--History.

Catholics.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Race relations.

Newton Grove (N.C.)--Church history.

Newton Grove (N.C.).

Newton Grove (N.C.)--Race relations.

North Carolina--Newton Grove.

Genre:

Church history

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2026]

Summary:

"n the summer of 1872, a white doctor and a formerly enslaved African American farmer walked through a field near Newton Grove, North Carolina, and mapped out the dimensions of a new clapboard church. The men, John Carr Monk and Solomon Monk, had been raised together on a nearby plantation. While neighbors attended newly segregated Protestant congregations, the Monks converted to Catholicism, which offered a framework of racial universalism. Alongside the church, the parish ran parochial schools for the area’s Black and white children long before state public schools existed. But visits from night riders emphasized the congregation’s threat to the social order. Despite these threats and others, the church used their common theology and local history to navigate the nativism of the 1920s and the bishop' s decision to segregate. Then, in 1953, the church community reintegrated. While the parish was far from a utopia, it embraced the daily struggle to embody the true church that its founders believed God desired. Drawing from archives, ethnographic observations, and the living histories of parish members, Susan B. Ridgely offers a rich understanding of the ongoing interplay of race, religion, and rural life in this parish, in North Carolina, and in the United States"-- JSTOR

Contents:

From plantation to parish, Antebellum North Carolina to 1870

St. Mark’s and the limits of a parish’s protection, 1870-1904

The delicate dance of rural Catholicism in the Protestant South, 1899-1926

Maintaining unity through segregation?, 1926-1952

Can two become one?, Striving for unity, 1953-1974

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 11, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Ridgely, Susan B. (Susan Bales) One true church

ISBN:

9781469685335

1469685337

9781469694603

1469694603

OCLC:

1570388277

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license