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Subject:	Church of England in Colonial Virginia
From:	Brent Tarter <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:08:11 -0500
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This is an interesting and very ill-understood subject. I strongly
recommend that everybody who gets curious about this subject read two
recent books, Edward L. Bond's DAMNED SOULS IN A TOBACCO COLONY:
RELIGION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VIRIGNIA (Mercer Univeristy Press,
2000), and John K. Nelson's A BLESSED COMPANY: PARISHES, PARSONS, AND
PARISHIONERS IN ANGLICAN VIRGINIA, 1690-1776 (University of North
Carolina Press, 2001).

Those volumes show that most of what we have thought that we understood
about religious beliefs and practices and about the Church of England in
the colony is incorrect, including many of the generalizations that have
appeared on this list in the last few days.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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