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Author: Edwin Scott Gaustad Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg ISBN: 9780879350765 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 56
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Although Virginia is rarely thought of as a religious colony, by the end of the seventeenth century, the Church of England was stronger in Virginia than anywhere else in North America. This study examines religion in Virginia from about 1750 to 1800, focusing on the rise of dissenting religions, the religious life of different segments of colonial Virginia society, the connection between religious controversy and the American Revolution, and the effect of the Revolution on religion in Virginia. Revival, Revolution, and Religion in Early Virginia tells the story of Virginia's dramatic transformation from a colony with an official religion to a new state where church and government were separated by law, a separation reflected in the U.S. Constitution.
Author: Edwin Scott Gaustad Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg ISBN: 9780879350765 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 56
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Although Virginia is rarely thought of as a religious colony, by the end of the seventeenth century, the Church of England was stronger in Virginia than anywhere else in North America. This study examines religion in Virginia from about 1750 to 1800, focusing on the rise of dissenting religions, the religious life of different segments of colonial Virginia society, the connection between religious controversy and the American Revolution, and the effect of the Revolution on religion in Virginia. Revival, Revolution, and Religion in Early Virginia tells the story of Virginia's dramatic transformation from a colony with an official religion to a new state where church and government were separated by law, a separation reflected in the U.S. Constitution.
Author: Edward L. Bond Publisher: Mercer University Press ISBN: 9780865547087 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 358
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"In this study, historian Edward L. Bond provides an inside view of religion in America's first colony. Focusing or religion as various expressions of individual and corporate relationship with the divine, the author gives the reader a picture of religion and society in colonial Virginia. In the process, he clarifies our understandings of Virginia's established Anglican Church, discusses the theology and devotional practices of the colonists, and explains the role of religion in colonial polity. Such an approach allows the reader to see both the conservative and progressive elements in the way the earliest colonists in Virginia defined their individual and corporate relationship with God." "Throughout Bond's analysis, he shows that by the end of the seventeenth century Virginians, though viewing themselves as Anglicans, nonetheless gradually discovered that they were defending an ecclesiastical institution much different from the one they left behind in England."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Paul Rasor Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813931185 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 214
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From Jamestown to Jefferson sheds new light on the contexts surrounding Thomas Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom—and on the emergence of the American understanding of religious freedom—by examining its deep roots in colonial Virginia’s remarkable religious diversity. Challenging traditional assumptions about life in early Virginia, the essays in this volume show that the colony was more religious, more diverse, and more tolerant than commonly supposed. The presence of groups as disparate as Quakers, African and African American slaves, and Presbyterians, alongside the established Anglicans, generated a dynamic tension between religious diversity and attempts at hegemonic authority that was apparent from Virginia’s earliest days. The contributors, all renowned scholars of Virginia history, treat in detail the complex interactions among Virginia’s varied religious groups, both in and out of power, as well as the seismic changes unleashed by the Statute’s adoption in 1786. From Jamestown to Jefferson suggests that the daily religious practices and struggles that took place in the town halls, backwoods settlements, plantation houses, and slave quarters that dotted the colonial Virginia landscape helped create a social and political space within which a new understanding of religious freedom, represented by Jefferson’s Statute, could emerge. Contributors:Edward L. Bond, Alabama A&M University * Richard E. Bond, Virginia Wesleyan College * Thomas E. Buckley, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University/Graduate Theological Union * Daniel L. Dreisbach, American University, School of Public Affairs * Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University * Monica Najar, Lehigh University * Paul Rasor, Virginia Wesleyan College * Brent Tarter, Library of Virginia
Author: Edward L. Bond Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739107218 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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Edward L. Bond offers a reappraisal of religion's place in the colonies, fully chronicling as well as contextualizing the practice of religion and church activities in early America. The addition of previously unpublished and largely unexamined sermons shapes a picture of colonial Virginia's religious environment that is unparalleled in both depth and scope The book vastly enriches our appreciation not only of the texts, but also of their writers and the important role these clergymen played in shaping the young nation.
Author: Kirk Mariner Publisher: ISBN: 9781735995700 Category : Languages : en Pages : 734
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The Eastern Shore of Virginia-detached from and sometimes forgotten by the rest of the state, a pleasant rural place where life is noticeably slower and more relaxed, though the distance to the great cities of the Northeast is not great. Quaint country churches dot the landscape and dominate the view of its many villages, some of them erected when the Old Dominion was still a colony of England.This book is the story of religion on the Eastern Shore. Here in microcosm are many of the same forces and movements that molded the religion of the entire nation: the Colonial establishment, the camp meetings and revivals of the Second Great Awakening, the bitter battle over slavery, the emergence of the black churches, the Holiness movement, pentacostalism, and the rich diversity of the present scene right up to 1978. Among the well-known figures who are part of this pageant are Francis Makemie, founder of the first American presbytery, Francis Asbury, the pioneer Methodist bishop, James Cannon, Jr., the controversial temperance leader and power in Virginia politics. These and a host of colorful local characters come alive in these pages.As the title suggests, it was primarily the revivalistic religions that won the Eastern Shore, and foremost among them the Methodists. The Shore is, in fact, unusual is being one of the few areas in the nation where Methodism predominates.Revival's Children is really two books in one. The first part is the narrative of the founding and unfolding of Christianity on the peninsula. The second is a catalog of every religious congregation known to have existed on the Shore, Christian and Jewish, Protestant and Catholic, black and white, since 1624. Over 300 separate congregations are traced individually, and located on detailed maps.
Author: John A. Ragosta Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199750947 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom. This profound transformation, as John A. Ragosta shows in this book, arose not from a new-found cultural tolerance. Rather, as the Revolution approached, Virginia's political establishment needed the support of the religious dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, for the mobilization effort. Dissenters seized this opportunity to insist on freedom of religion in return for their mobilization. Their demands led to a complex and extended negotiation in which the religious establishment slowly and grudgingly offered just enough reforms to maintain the crucial support of the dissenters. After the war, when dissenters' support was no longer needed, the establishment leaders sought to recapture control, but found they had seriously miscalculated: wartime negotiations had politicized the dissenters. As a result dissenters' demands for the separation of church and state triumphed over the establishment's efforts and Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was adopted. Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal, and previously underappreciated, role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today.
Author: Dot Dalton Publisher: ISBN: 9780578816814 Category : Languages : en Pages : 154
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Rekindle Virginia, The Flames of Revival, a new book compiled by Dorothy "Dot" Dalton is now available. It is a workbook that is easy to read, formatted with bullets, pictures, maps and graphs. For more information go to the web site www.rekindleva.com to order your book copy, (which is also available via Amazon and Barnes-Noble), view a PowerPoint presentation, and see the way for individuals and churches to believe, repent, return, and pray for revival. Virginia has been called: Birth place of our Nation, Cradle of our Nation, Womb of our Nation, Birthplace of the Church of Jesus Christ in our Nation, and Seedbed of America. Virginia per the First Charter of Virginia, April 1606: Purpose: "was "so noble a Work, which may, by Providence of Almighty God, hereafter ten to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to settle and quiet Government: ....." It was a business venture to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Natives. Land Area: King James I of England originally granted a charter in 1606 to the Virginia Company which defined two colonies in an area from Bermuda to the West Coast, to today's South Carolina all the way to Maine and parts of Canada. The area, which now encompasses almost all of America, was called Virginia. Virginia is God's "Eastern Gate" for God's Kingdom on earth's Christian plan. Not Plymouth which came 13 years later. Virginia had a Great Spiritual Awaking between 1740-1790, second in America after New England. God did it before, He can rekindle the flames of Revival again.
Author: Edwin Scott Gaustad
Author: Edwin Scott Gaustad
Author: Wesley Marsh Gewehr
Author: Virginia State Library. Archives Division
Author: Edward L. Bond
Author: Paul Rasor
Author: Edward L. Bond
Author: Kirk Mariner
Author: Charles Fenton James
Author: John A. Ragosta
Author: Dot Dalton