Walter H. Conser Jr., professor of religious studies and history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, is the author of several books, including God and the Natural World: Religion and Science in Antebellum America.
""A Coat of Many Colors is a sweeping survey of religious life in
southeastern North Carolina from pre-European contact to the recent
past. Richly detailed and deeply researched, Conser -- a professor
of religious studies and history at the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington -- demonstrably writes with an intimate
awareness of the region he describes. To be sure, A Coat of Many
Colors is now the authoritative work on religion in southeastern
North Caolina, but this volume is not simply a narrow provincial
study." -- Luke E. Harlow, Rice University, Journal of Southern
Religion" -- Luke E. Harlow, Journal of Southern Religion
""Ambitious in chronological and thematic scope, the book paints a
compelling and unconventional portrait of religious life in the
region... Walter H. Conser, Jr.'s book breaks important ground in
the study of southern religion."" -- South Carolina Historical
Magazine
""Conser does a superb job with the broad strokes, and how they
represent developments in American religious history. The book's
breadth of coverage makes its own significant contribution.
Conser's methodology, in fact, provides an excellent model for
other historians who seek to tell the story of American religion in
regional locations." -- Mark G. Toulouse, Brite Divinity School,
Fort Worth, American Historical Review" -- Mark G. Toulouse,
American Historical Review
"A wonderful book, broadly conceived, deeply researched,
beautifully written, and carefully documented. It exemplifies that
aphorism about how much can be learned by asking 'big' questions
about little places." -- John B. Boles, William P. Hobby Professor
of History, Rice University
"Conser bolsters his book's chronological sweep by steadying it
upon a sturdy and eclectic evidentiary foundation... Deeply
researched subregional studies like this one will provide scholars
with the tools they need to take up Conser's call to create a new
map of America's changing religious terrain." -- North Carolina
Historical Review
"Represents regional institutional history at its best.... Conser's
work deserves attention from all who are interested in southern
history, American religion, and sociocultural studies. Highly
recommended." -- Choice
"Students of religious history have long been methodologically
inventive bringing analytical tools from sociology, ethnography,
anthropology, geography, and elsewhere to bear in their research.
Conser and Payne fully embrace this trend toward interdisciplinary
scholarship...." -- Church History
"The variety and sweep of the narrative take the reader's breath
away." -- Robert Calhoon, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
"Uses sermon texts, congressional records, newspaper accounts, and
family memoirs to explore the evolution of religious life in the
South from Native American traditions to the arrival of mosques and
Buddhist temples." -- Wilmington Star-News
"Walter H. Conser Jr. provides a thorough survey of religion in the
Cape Fear region, the southeastern quadrant of North Carolina...
[which] is a microcosm of the larger history of religion in
America. Along the way, we learn about local people, institutions,
and churches, with a degree of detail and specificity that could
only have come from a historian who is also a local resident." --
Journal of American History
"Winner of the Clarendon Cup given by the Lower Cape Fear
Historical Society." --
"Winner of the 2007 Book Award given by the North Carolina
Presbyterian Historical Society." --
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