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Article: Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry. By S. Scott Rohrer. Religion and American Culture. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 266. $42.50, ISBN 0-8173-1435-0.)
This monograph offers a fresh perspective on Moravian Church history by including and even featuring the country congregations in the Wachovia area of North Carolina rather than focusing only on the more often studied congregation towns like Salem. Instead of stressing the exclusivity that characterized congregation towns, S. Scott Rohrer emphasizes the relative openness of country congregations. In doing so, he portrays Moravians' commitment to ...