German Religious Life In Colonial Times Classic Reprint

Author : Carl Edward Schneider
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266907404
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The German Church on the American Frontier written by Carl Edward Schneider and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The German Church on the American Frontier: A Study in the Rise of Religion Among the Germans of the West, Based on the History of the Evangelischer Kirchenverein Des Westens (Evangelical Church Society of the West), 1840-1866 The story of the religious origins among the Germans in the West, however, is not so well known. Historical inter est has mainly centered about the German Churches in the East. Many of these originated in the Colonial Period and effected their accommodations to the life and mores of the New World, while participating at the same time in the rise Of the new republic on American soil. The story of the Ger man settlement in the East, therefore, belongs intrinsically to the history of the American people. It Should become increasingly apparent, however, that the German immi gration of the nineteenth century was in many respects as significant for the later development of the West as the pre-revolutionary immigration was important for the East. The varied socio-historical aspects of the Western devel opment Should be sufficiently attractive to invite serious study. Conditions prevailing in both Germany and America at the time favored the rise Of a Germanism which in the isolation of the Western frontier frequently sought to fur ther its cause independent not only of American influences but also of contacts with the Older German culture of the East. We are here dealing with the rise of a unique Ger man civilization which, sometimes divided against itself, did not begin to integrate with American culture until the national crisis of the Civil War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.