Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865

by Stephen L. Longenecker

Overview

By surveying the religiously pluralistic setting of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Shenandoah Valley, Longenecker reveals how the fabric of American pluralism was woven. Calling worldliness the "mainstream" and otherworldliness, "outsidernesss," Shenandoah Religion describes the transition certain denominations made in becoming mainstream and the resistance of others in maintaining distinctive dress, manners, social relations, economics, and apolitical viewpoints.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780918954831
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	09/05/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	261
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

STEPHEN L. LONGENECKER is Professor of History at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia. A graduate of John Hopkins University (M.A. and Ph.D.), Longenecker is the author of Selma's Peacemaker: Ralph E. Smeltzer and Civil Rights Mediation (1987) and Piety and Tolerance: Pennsylvania German Religion, 1700-1850 (1994).

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

The Valley
The American Revolution
The Methodist Revolution
The Market Revolution
The South's Revolution, I: The Slavery Debate
The South's Revolution, II: The Civil War
Conclusions

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

[This work] will confirm Longenecker's standing as the foremost religious historian of the Virginia backcountry.

Robert M. Calhoon

[This work] will confirm Longenecker's standing as the foremost religious historian of the Virginia backcountry.

Editorial Reviews

Informative and well written, this book analyzes 'outsiderness' as a theologically justified position among a handful of Protestant traditions in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.... Recommended. General readers, undergraduates, and graduate students.

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