A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 - Couverture souple

Nelson, John K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1469614979 ISBN 13 : 9781469614977

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of its parishioners. Drawing on extensive research in parish and county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and rites of passage, and its parishioners' varied relationships to the church. All colonial Virginians--men and women, rich and poor, young and old, planters and merchants, servants and slaves, dissenters and freethinkers--belonged to a parish. As such, they were subject to its levies, its authority over marriage, and other social and economic dictates. In addition to its religious functions, the parish provided essential care for the poor, collaborated with the courts to handle civil disputes, and exerted its influence over many other aspects of community life. A Blessed Company demonstrates that, by creatively adapting Anglican parish organization and the language, forms, and modes of Anglican spirituality to the Chesapeake's distinctive environmental and human conditions, colonial Virginians sustained a remarkably effective and faithful Anglican church in the Old Dominion.

Biographie de l'auteur :

John K. Nelson is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1469614979
• ISBN 13: 9781469614977
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496