Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals

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The Dutch came to the New World in the seventeenth century as explorers and traders, but religion soon followed, for it was once accepted in the Netherlands that state and church were mutually benefited by advancing the “true Christian religion.” The influence of “Dutchness”—defined here as loyalty to what are presumed to be the distinctive qualities of Dutch national character and culture—persisted in New York and New Jersey for more than 200 years after Dutch emigration ended. Why?

Firth Haring Fabend finds the explanation in the devotion of the Reformed Dutch Church membership to the doctrines and traditions of their church. She looks at the individual and personal beliefs and behaviors of this regularly-neglected ethnic group. Thus, Zion at the Hudson presents both a broad and an intimate have a look at the way in which one mainstream Protestant denomination dealt with the transformative events of the evangelical era.

As Fabend describes the efforts of the Dutch to preserve the European standards and traditions of their church, whilst developing a taste for a new more or less theology and a preference for an American identity, she documents how Dutchness after all became a historical memory. The Americanization of the Reformed Dutch Church, Fabend writes, is a microcosm of the story of the Americanization of the USA itself.

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