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The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1820 Children and Earl ZimmermanIn the early to mid eighteenth century, Lancaster stood apart as an active and religiously diverse, ethnically complex, and bustling city. On the eve of the American Revolution, Lancaster's population had risen to nearly three thousand inhabitants; it stood as a center of commerce, industry, and trade. While the German speaking population Anabaptists as well as German Lutherans, Moravians, and German Calvinists made up the majority, about one third