| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina. By Walter H. Conser Jr. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xii, 372 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2405-6.)

Starting from the arrival of the Italian sailor and explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano on the shores of North Carolina in 1524 and ending with the confluence of the "Age of Aquarius, the era of the evangelical, and the generation of the baby boomers" in Wilmington in the 1990s, Walter H. Conser Jr. provides a thorough survey of religion in the Cape Fear region, the southeastern quadrant of North Carolina, which includes nine current counties and about 15 percent of the state's landmass (p. 288). Representative of the larger South, but unrepresentative of North Carolina because of its larger-scale plantations and its myriad trading connections with the outside world, the Cape Fear region upholds some common generalizations about "southern religion" while contradicting others. In many ways, the region is a microcosm of the larger history of religion in America.

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