Mark Häberlein is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1A Quest for Order:The German Reformed Congregation, 1733–17752Growth and Disruption: Lutherans and Moravians3The English Churches of Colonial Lancaster4Religious Pluralism in an Eighteenth-Century Town5Lancaster’s Churches in the New Republic6The Transformation of Charity, 1750–1820ConclusionBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

“Thorough and persuasive. The people of Lancaster come across as devoted and essentially conservative, supporting their churches and attached to their ways of worship, even if individuals among them occasionally changed their minds. Häberlein persuasively shows that the laity provided the true continuity of the church.”—Ned Landsmann, Stony Brook University

Mark Häberlein is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1A Quest for Order:The German Reformed Congregation, 1733–17752Growth and Disruption: Lutherans and Moravians3The English Churches of Colonial Lancaster4Religious Pluralism in an Eighteenth-Century Town5Lancaster’s Churches in the New Republic6The Transformation of Charity, 1750–1820ConclusionBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

“Thorough and persuasive. The people of Lancaster come across as devoted and essentially conservative, supporting their churches and attached to their ways of worship, even if individuals among them occasionally changed their minds. Häberlein persuasively shows that the laity provided the true continuity of the church.”—Ned Landsmann, Stony Brook University

Mark Häberlein is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1A Quest for Order:The German Reformed Congregation, 1733–17752Growth and Disruption: Lutherans and Moravians3The English Churches of Colonial Lancaster4Religious Pluralism in an Eighteenth-Century Town5Lancaster’s Churches in the New Republic6The Transformation of Charity, 1750–1820ConclusionBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

“Thorough and persuasive. The people of Lancaster come across as devoted and essentially conservative, supporting their churches and attached to their ways of worship, even if individuals among them occasionally changed their minds. Häberlein persuasively shows that the laity provided the true continuity of the church.”—Ned Landsmann, Stony Brook University