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Walter H. Conser, Jr.A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina. (Religion in the South.) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2006. Pp. xi, 372. $50.00.
This regional history, written by Walter H. Conser, Jr., examines both "religion and society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina." The region contains nine counties in southeastern North Carolina, with Wilmington serving as the major economic, political, and religious center for the area. Alongside the wide variety of traditional expressions of Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, and other world religions like Buddhism, Baha'iism, and Islam in or near contemporary Wilmington, one will find many other religious expressions as well, including Wicca and Messianic Judaism. This history covers them all, traditional and otherwise.	1
The religious heritage of the Cape Fear River region, the "coat of many colors," truly does contain some colorful threads. Major revivalist preachers including George Whitefield (1739), Sam P. Jones (1890), Dwight L. Moody (1893), and Billy Graham (1965) preached in Wilmington. Mary Baker Eddy (known at the time as Mary Baker Glover) lived there in 1844. Bishop Charles M. ("Sweet Daddy") Grace built a tabernacle, and maintained a residence, in Wilmington, even though his headquarters were located in Washington, D.C. Charlie Han Soong, later a key figure in Sun Yat-sen's revolution, was baptized in the Fifth Avenue Methodist Church in 1880. Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek each married a Soong daughter. Conser's history also uncovers an early act of interfaith benevolence when the new Jewish temple (built in 1876) hosted the local Methodist congregation for two years after the Methodist church burned to the ground in 1886.	. . .

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