Baptists in America
Subtitle: A history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780199977536
Description: The Puritans hounded the Baptists out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. Yet the historical legacy, and the inherently fractured nature of their faith, makes Baptists ever wary of threats from within as well as without. Kidd and Hankins, both practicing Baptists, weave the threads of Baptist history alongside those of American history to show how one religious denomination was transformed from persecuted minority into a leading actor on the national stage, with profound implications for American society and culture.