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Schweiger's book is an excellent addition to a growing body of work by a number of recent historians which is breathing new life into the once sclerotic genre of denominational history and relating our understanding of religious movements and institutions to the complex movement of southern history in a more sophisticated way. --Journal of the Early Republic Schweiger's book is an excellent addition to a growing body of work by a number of recent historians which is breathing new life into the once sclerotic genre of denominational history and relating our understanding of religious movements and institutions to the complex movement of southern history in a more sophisticated way. --Journal of the Early Republic Beth Barton Schweiger's fresh and innovative study of Methodists and Baptists in nineteenth-century Virginia challenges many standard historical interpretations of southern evangelicals... --American Historical Review ...fresh and fascinating....There is much more to be learned from this fine piece of scholarship than can be described in this brief space. Suffice it to say that no student of 19th-Century Virginia can afford to neglect it. --Times Dispatch, Richmond, VA Schweiger's story does more than make sense. It may stir many readers to wonder how historians could have got the picture so far wrong for so long. --Georgia Historical Quarterly A bold and sweeping book that addresses important themes in Southern history and Southern religion. Civil War History

Schweiger's book is an excellent addition to a growing body of work by a number of recent historians which is breathing new life into the once sclerotic genre of denominational history and relating our understanding of religious movements and institutions to the complex movement of southern history in a more sophisticated way. --Journal of the Early Republic<br>

Schweiger's story does more than make sense. It may stir many readers to wonder how historians could have got the picture so far wrong for so long. * Mark Wahlgren Summers, Georgia Historical Quarterly * This is a bold and sweeping book that addresses important themes in Southern history and Southern religion. * John W. Quist, Civil War History * Schweiger's fresh and innovative study of Methodists and Baptists in nineteenth-century Virginia challenges many standard historical interpretations of southern evangelicals. * American Historical Review, June 2001 *

<br> Schweiger's book is an excellent addition to a growing body of work by a number of recent historians which is breathing new life into the once sclerotic genre of denominational history and relating our understanding of religious movements and institutions to the complex movement of southern history in a more sophisticated way. --Journal of the Early Republic<br>

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