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Our Southern Zion : A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990 /

The complex character of this Calvinist community guides Clarke to an exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition and a distinct social context have interacted over a 300-year period, including the unique story of the oldest and largest African American Calvinist community in America.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Clarke, Erskine, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Tradition Established: A European Prologue
  • 2. The Context: The Colony of South Carolina
  • 3. The Tradition Transplanted: The Reformed Communites
  • 4. The Tradition Articulated: A Carolina Accent
  • 5. The Tradition Expanded: The Great Awakening
  • 6. Competing Impulses: Tories, Whigs, and the Revolution
  • 7. Institutional Developments: "Our Southern Zion"
  • 8. A Church Both African American and Reformed
  • 9. An Antebellum Social Profile in Black and White: "Our Kind of People"
  • 10. An Intellectual Tradition: The Quest for a Middle Way
  • 11. Slavery: "That Course Indicated by Stern Necessity"
  • 12. Secession and Civil War: The End of Moderation
  • 13. The Challenge of an Almost New Order: "Hold Your Ground, Sir!"
  • 14. The African American Reformed Community: Between Two Worlds
  • 15. The African American Reformed Community: "Two Warring Ideals in One Dark Body"
  • 16. The White Reformed Community, 1876-1941: A "Little World" in Travail and Transition
  • 17. From "Our Little World" to the Sun Belt
  • App. A. Three Centuries of Reformed Congregations in the Carolina Low Country (1685-1985)
  • App. B. Known Pastors in Colonial Presbyterian and Congregational Churches
  • App. C. Presbyterian and Congregational Ministers, 1783-1861
  • App. D. Pastors of Black Presbyterian and Congregational Churches and Principals of Black Institutions
  • App. E. Leading White Presbyterian and Congregational Ministers or Those with five or More Years in the Low Country.