Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716–1865

by Stephen L. Longenecker

Publisher:

Baylor University Press

, 2002

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 the “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

• Title: Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716–1865
• Author: Stephen L. Longenecker
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2002
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) › Church history--18th century; Religious minorities › Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History--18th century; Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) › Church history--19th century; Religious minorities › Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History--19th century
• ISBNs: 9781602580565, 0918954835, 9781280424380, 1602580561, 9780918954831, 1280424389
• Resource ID: LLS:SHNNDHRLGNTSDRS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:59:49Z

About Stephen L. Longenecker

Stephen L. Longenecker is professor of history at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia. A graduate of John Hopkins University (MA and PhD), Longenecker is the author of Selma’s Peacemaker: Ralph E. Smeltzer and Civil Rights Mediation and Piety and Tolerance: Pennsylvania German Religion, 1700–1850.