Local Baptists, local politics
Subtitle: churches and communities in the middle and uplands south
By: Clifford A. Grammich, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Baptists -- Southern States.; Christianity and politics -- Baptists.; Christianity and politics -- Southern States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Politics and the Bible: an introduction; title: National themes in local settings; title: Histories and their implications: some characteristics of sectarian Baptists; title: The strengths of adaptation for labor: organized labor and traditional Protestantism; title: The limits of adaptation for reform: the problem of local versus public goods; title: A theme and its variations: sectarianism and politics revisited; title: Appendix: sources and methodology.