Shenandoah Religion

By surveying the religiously pluralistic setting of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Shenandoah Valley, Longenecker reveals how the fabric of American pluralism was woven. Calling worldliness the 'mainstream' and otherworldliness, 'outsidernesss, ' Shenandoah Religion describes the transition certain denominations made in becoming mainstream and the resistance of others in maintaining distinctive dress, manners, social relations, economics, and apolitical viewpoints.