Democratic Religion
Subtitle: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (Religion in America)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 12, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780195160994
First sentence: In 1806, William Barnes, estranged from some of the members of the Savannah First Baptist Church, requested letters of dismission in order that he and his family might join another church.