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The eighteenth century was a time of significant change in the perception of marriage and family relations, the emphasis of reason over revelation, and the spread of political consciousness. The Unity of the Brethren, known in America as Moravians, experienced the resulting tensions firsthand as they organized their protective religious settlements in Germany. A group of the Brethren who later settled in Salem, North Carolina, experienced the stresses of cultural and generational conflict when its younger members came to think of themselves as Americans.The Moravians who first immigrated to Am

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Gideon's People is the story of an American Indian community in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on some three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined the Indians at a place called Pachgatgoch, later Schaghticoke. It is supplemented by colonial records and regional political, social, and religious histories and ethnographies. As such, it represents the only comprehensive, thoroughly contextualized description of a Native people in southern New England and adjacent eastern New York

Scaticook Indians --- Moravians --- Missionaries --- Religious adherents --- Brethren, United --- Hernhutters --- Herrnhuter --- Society of United Brethren --- Unitas Fratrum --- United Brethren --- Hussites --- Pachgatgoch Indians --- Pachgatgooch Indians --- Patchgatgoch Indians --- Scachtacook Indians --- Scaticook Indians (Conn.) --- Scaticook Indians (N.Y.) --- Schaghticoke Indians --- Scoticook Indians --- Scotticook Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Missions --- History. --- Religion. --- Social life and customs.

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This eloquent study describes the complex process of assimilation that occurred among multi-ethnic groups in Wachovia, the evangelical community that settled a 100,000-acre tract in Piedmont North Carolina from 1750 to 1860. It counters commonplace notions that evangelicalism was a divisive force in the antebellum South, demonstrating instead the ability of evangelical beliefs and practices to unify diverse peoples and foster shared cultural values. In Hope's Promise, Scott Rohrer dissects the internal workings of the ecumenical Moravian movement at Wachovia-

Frontier and pioneer life --- Christian communities --- Evangelicalism --- Ethnicity --- Acculturation --- British Americans --- Moravians --- Anglo-Americans --- English Americans --- British --- Ethnology --- Brethren, United --- Hernhutters --- Herrnhuter --- Society of United Brethren --- Unitas Fratrum --- United Brethren --- Hussites --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Evangelical religion --- Protestantism, Evangelical --- Evangelical Revival --- Fundamentalism --- Pietism --- Protestantism --- Christian communes --- Communes, Christian --- Communities, Christian --- Religious communities --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- History. --- Social aspects --- History --- Forsyth County (N.C.) --- Forsyth Co., N.C. --- Religious life and customs. --- Ethnic relations. --- Culture contact (Acculturation)