Baptists in North America
Subtitle: an historical perspective
By: William H. Brackney.
Series: Religious life in America
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781405118651; 9781405118644
Subjects: Baptists -- United States -- History; Baptists -- Canada -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what are the Baptists? or who are the Baptists?; title: Coming to America; title: Revivalism and a fondness for liberty; title: Growth and diversification; title: The institutionalization of a tradition; title: A tradition of several families; title: The pinnacle of Baptist denominationalism; title: The come-outer tradition; title: The uniqueness of African American Baptists; title: Baptists and the missionary impulse; title: Social concerns and mores of an evangelical tradition; title: Baptists face modernity.