A Genealogy of Dissent
Subtitle: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century (Religion in the South)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813120935
Subjects: Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Religion: general; Southern Baptist Convention; History; Baptist Churches; Religion - Denominations - Religions; Religious aspects; Religion; History of doctrines; Christianity - Baptist; Christianity - History - Protestant; Baptists; Southern States; 20th century; Civil rights
First sentence: Born in 1845 of the conflict that tore apart several Protestant denominations in the United States, the struggle between North and South over the issue of slavery, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) became the ecclesiastical structure, if a loose one, with which many of the South's most conservative Christians affiliated.