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Book Review
Canada and the United States
Firth Haring Fabend. Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 284. $50.00.
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The relationship between religion and ethnic identity has long fascinated American historians. Firth Haring Fabend examines the Dutch experience in the nineteenth century, wondering how and why Dutchness persisted in the face of no new Dutch immigration and the pressures to assimilate into an American culture increasingly dominated by Protestant evangelicalism. Interestingly, she finds that religion served both conservative and transformative functions amid the nineteenth-century Dutch, although in the end the latter proved more potent and "Reformed [Dutch] churchgoers . . . seamlessly merged into the mainstream of American Protestantism" (p. 216). |
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