Faith and family in the Antebellum Piedmont South
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Christopher Alan Graham, Lecturer (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Charles Bolton
Abstract: This dissertation examines the cultural and religious dynamics of the North Carolina Piedmont's non-planter social order. I look in depth at the modernizing elements of antebellum religion, particularly the sensibility of liberality that accompanied institutional development, how church disciplinary procedures adapted to changing social reality, and the formation of middle class style nuclear families under the aegis of evangelical prescription. In addition to using denominational records, I utilize four diaries of ordinary Piedmont residents in extended explorations of how individuals enacted in their private lives the public lessons of evangelicalism. I conclude that an evangelical ethic developed that existed alongside the dominant planter ideology, and that ethic formed the basis for both unity, and dissent, in the late antebellum period.
Faith and family in the Antebellum Piedmont South
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2013
- Keywords
- Antebellum, Civil War, Family, Gender, Religion, South
- Subjects
- Families $x Religious life $z North Carolina
- Evangelicalism $z North Carolina $x History $y 19th century
- North Carolina $x Religious life and customs
- North Carolina $x Church history $y 19th century