Author: James Almerius DelkePublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
History of the North Carolina Chowan Baptist Association, 1806-1881
Author: James Almerius DelkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Minutes of the Kehukey Association (Baptist)
Author: Bessie Lewis WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Fear River Valley (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Biennial Report
Author: North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publications
Author: North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publications ...
Author: North Carolina. State Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Evangelizing the South
Author: Monica NajarPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195309006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Although many refer to the American South as the "Bible Belt", the region was not always characterized by a powerful religious culture. In the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, religion-in terms both of church membership and personal piety-was virtually absent from southern culture. The late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, however, witnessed the astonishingly rapid rise of evangelical religion in the Upper South. Within just a few years, evangelicals had spread their beliefs and their fervor, gaining converts and building churches throughout Virginia and North Carolina and into the western regions. But what was it that made evangelicalism so attractive to a region previously uninterested in religion?Monica Najar argues that early evangelicals successfully negotiated the various challenges of the eighteenth-century landscape by creating churches that functioned as civil as well as religious bodies. The evangelical church of the late eighteenth century was the cornerstone of its community, regulating marriages, monitoring prices, arbitrating business, and settling disputes. As the era experienced substantial rifts in the relationship between church and state, the disestablishment of colonial churches paved the way for new formulations of church-state relations. The evangelical churches were well-positioned to provide guidance in uncertain times, and their multiple functions allowed them to reshape many of the central elements of authority in southern society. They assisted in reformulating the lines between the "religious" and "secular" realms, with significant consequences for both religion and the emerging nation-state.Touching on the creation of a distinctive southern culture, the position of women in the private and public arenas, family life in the Old South, the relationship between religion and slavery, and the political culture of the early republic, Najar reveals the history behind a religious heritage that remains a distinguishing mark of American society.
God's Almost Chosen Peoples
Author: George C. RablePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the war. Examining a wide range of published and unpublished documents--including sermons, official statements from various churches, denominational papers and periodicals, and letters, diaries, and newspaper articles--Rable illuminates the broad role of religion during the Civil War, giving attention to often-neglected groups such as Mormons, Catholics, blacks, and people from the Trans-Mississippi region. The book underscores religion's presence in the everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war. Rable shows that themes of providence, sin, and judgment pervaded both public and private writings about the conflict. Perhaps most important, this volume--the only comprehensive religious history of the war--highlights the resilience of religious faith in the face of political and military storms the likes of which Americans had never before endured.
The Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission
Author: North Carolina Historical CommissionPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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North Carolina Baptist Historical Papers
Author: Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
Author: William S. PowellPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807867012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.