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Author Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957-

Title Hope's promise : religion and acculturation in the Southern backcountry / S. Scott Rohrer
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 266 pages) : illustrations
Series Religion and American culture
Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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 1830s and beyond
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-
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index
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Subject Moravians -- North Carolina -- Forsyth County -- History
British Americans -- North Carolina -- Forsyth County -- History
Acculturation -- North Carolina -- Forsyth County -- History
Ethnicity -- North Carolina -- Forsyth County -- History
Evangelicalism -- Social aspects -- North Carolina -- Forsyth County -- History
Christian communities -- North Carolina -- Forsyth County -- History
Frontier and pioneer life -- North Carolina -- Forsyth County
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Acculturation
British Americans
Christian communities
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Evangelicalism -- Social aspects
Frontier and pioneer life
Moravians
Brüdergemeine
Herrnhutters.
Acculturatie.
SUBJECT Forsyth County (N.C.) -- Ethnic relations
Forsyth County (N.C.) -- Religious life and customs
Subject North Carolina -- Forsyth County
North Carolina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004008812
ISBN 9780817387563
0817387560
9780817357764
0817357769