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Bodies of Belief : : Baptist Community in Early America / / Janet Moore Lindman.

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The American Baptist church originated in British North America as "little tabernacles in the wilderness," isolated seventeenth-century congregations that had grown into a mainstream denomination by the early nineteenth century. The common view of this transition casts these evangelicals a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Lindman, Janet Moore,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2009
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A New People of God
  • Chapter 1. "Little Tabernacles in the Wilderness": Baptists in Colonial Pennsylvania
  • Chapter 2. "Sons and Daughters of Zion": Baptists in Colonial Virginia
  • Chapter 3. "A Heaven-Born Stroke": Evangelical Conversion
  • Chapter 4. "Putting on Christianity": Ritual Practice
  • Chapter 5. "Holy Walking and Conversation": Church Discipline
  • Chapter 6. Sisters in Christ: Gender and Spirituality
  • Chapter 7. Free People in the Lord: Race and Religion
  • Chapter 8. The Manly Christian: Evangelical White Manhood
  • Conclusion: Baptists in the Early Republic
  • Appendix. Partial List of Baptist Ministers in the Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake, 1689-1830
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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