Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 by Wills, Gregory A.

Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900

No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum...
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Author: Gregory A. Wills
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Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 by Wills, Gregory A.

Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900

CHF 137.36

Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900

CHF 137.36
Author: Gregory A. Wills
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to
Baptist observers.


Author: Gregory A. Wills
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/12/1996
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.34w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780195104127

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