Bodies of belief
Subtitle: Baptist community in early America
By: Janet Moore Lindman.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780812241143
Subjects: Baptists -- North America -- History; Body, Human -- Religious aspects -- Baptists -- History of doctrines; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- North America -- History; North America -- Church history
Description: Bodies of Belief argues that the paradoxical evolution of the Baptist religion, specifically in Pennsylvania and Virginia, was simultaneously egalitarian and hierarchical; democratic and conservative. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A new people of God; title: "Little tabernacles in the wilderness" : Baptists in colonial Pennsylvania; title: "Sons and daughters in zion" : Baptists in colonial Virginia; title: "A heaven-born stroke" : evangelical conversion; title: "Putting on Christianity" : ritual practice; title: "Holy walking and conversation" : church discipline; title: Sisters in Christ : gender and spirituality; title: Free people in the Lord : race and religion; title: The manly Christian : evangelical white manhood; title: Conclusion: Baptists in the early republic; title: Appendix: Baptist ministers in the Delaware Valley and Chesapeake.