Religious Traditions of North Carolina

This book presents most of the religious traditions North Carolinians and their ancestors have embraced since 1650. Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Methodists, Episcopalians, Jews, Brethren, Quakers, Lutherans, Mennonites, Moravians, and Pentecostals, along with African American worshippers and non–Christians, are covered in fourteen essays by men and women who have experienced the religions they describe in detail. The North Caroliniana Society is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, membership organization dedicated to the promotion of increased knowledge and appreciation of North Carolina’s heritage through the encouragement of scholarly research and writing and the teaching of state and local history, literature and culture.

W. Glenn Jonas, Jr., is the Charles Howard Professor of Religion and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Campbell University. He earned his Ph.D. at Baylor and has written several books and numerous journal articles in the field of Christian history.

Edited by W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. for the North Caroliniana Society

Foreword by James W. Clark Jr. and Willis P. Whichard

Format: hardcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 344
Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliographies, index
Copyright Date: 2018
pISBN: 978-1-4766-7646-3
eISBN: 978-1-4766-3470-8
Imprint: McFarland

Foreword (James W. Clark, Jr., and Willis P. Whichard) 1
Introduction (W. Glenn Jonas, Jr.) 3
Baptists (Lydia Huffman Hoyle) 5
Black Religion (Sandy Dwayne Martin) 25
Brethren (Jeff Bach) 48
Episcopalians (N. Brooks Graebner) 70
Holiness/Pentecostal Traditions (H. Stanley York) 92
Judaism (James Ingram Martin, Sr.) 112
Lutherans (Gary R. Freeze) 141
Mennonites (Thomas A. Lehman) 156
Methodists (Michael Perdue) 175
Moravians (C. Riddick Weber) 200
Presbyterians (Robert J. Cain) 223
Quakers (Max L. Carter) 248
Roman Catholics (Daniel Hutchinson) 266
World Religions (George W. Braswell, Jr., and Lisa Stover Grissom) 287
About the Contributors 309
Index 311