Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe. The Practice of Pluralism : : Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820 / / Mark Häberlein.

The clash of modernity and an Amish buggy might be the first image that comes to one’s mind when imagining Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today. But in the early to mid-eighteenth century, Lancaster stood apart as an active and religiously diverse, ethnically complex, and bustling city. On the eve of the...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Quest for Order: The German Reformed Congregation, 1733–1775
  • 2 Growth and Disruption: Lutherans and Moravians
  • 3 The English Churches of Colonial Lancaster
  • 4 Religious Pluralism in an Eighteenth-Century Town
  • 5 Lancaster’s Churches in the New Republic
  • 6 The Transformation of Charity, 1750–1820
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index