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A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776
Contributor(s): Nelson, John K. (Author)

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ISBN: 1469614979     ISBN-13: 9781469614977
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $57.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - Episcopalian
- History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- Religion | Christianity - Anglican
Dewey: 283.755
LCCN: 2001027542
Lexile Measure: 1660
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.65 lbs) 496 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Geographic Orientation - Virginia
- Cultural Region - South Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
 
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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.


Contributor Bio(s): Nelson, John K.: - John K. Nelson is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
 
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