Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865.

By Stephen, L. Longenecker

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918954835
• ISBN13: 9780918954831
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The transitions and evolutions of various denominations

Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865 by Stephen L. Longenecker (Professor of History, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia) is a thoughtful, scholarly, meticulously researched, and carefully written survey of religious pluralism in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Shenandoah Valley. Studying the transitions and evolutions of various denominations toward mainstream homogeny, and the tendency of other religious movements to retain their distinctive mannerisms, dress, and economies, Shenandoah Religion is a simply fascinating microcosm of the development of religious thought and human society over the course of decades.