Baptists in America / / Bill Leonard.
Baptists are a study in contrasts. From Little Dove Old Regular Baptist Church, up a hollow in the Appalachian Mountains, with its 25-member congregation, to the 18,000-strong Saddleback Valley Church in Orange County, California, where hymns appear on wide-screen projectors; from Jerry Falwell, Jes...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 15 illus |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Baptist Beginnings
- 3. Baptists in the Twentieth Century
- 4. Baptist Beliefs and Practices
- 5. Baptist Groups: Denominations, Subdenominations, and Churches
- 6. Bible, Ordinances, and Polity: Debates and Divisions Among Baptists
- 7. Baptists and Religious Liberty: Citizenship and Freedom
- 8. Ethnicity and Race in Baptist Churches
- 9. Women in Baptist Life
- 10. Baptists and American Culture: "In the World but Not of It"
- Appendix: A Baptist Chronology
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index