Religious Traditions of North Carolina ― Histories, Tenets and Leaders

Religious Traditions in North Carolina: Histories, Tenets and Leaders presents most of the religious traditons North Carolinians and their ancestors and neighbors have embraced since 1650. Baptists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Methodists, Episcopalians, Jews, Brethren, Quakers, Lutherans, Mennonites, Moravians, and Pentecostal-Holinists are gathered with African American worshippers and non-Christian believers in these fourteen essays written by men and women who have experienced the religions they describe in documented, historic detail. Who began to cultivate a given faith in North Carolina or its colony is balanced by the leaders, provenance, and contemporary appeal of that faith today. North Carolina religions have not previously been presented in this manner. The North Caroliniana Society, the sponsor of this unique project, is a non-profit, nonsectarian, membership organization dedicated to the promotion of increased knowledge and appreciation of North Carolina’s heritage through the encouragment of scholarly research and writing in addition to the teaching of state and local history, literature, and culture, including religion.

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 authored, coauthored or edited six books, as well as numerous journal articles in the field of Christian history. He has served in both academic and ministerial capacities for many years.