[PDF.43oy] Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (Religion in America)

Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (Religion in America)

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 | #649393 in Books |  2003-03-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.90 x.80 x9.20l,.71 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Get it for what it is: Great information, a bit tedious as a read|By Tyler Holloway|Dr. Greg Wills has produced an important work documenting how Baptist churches in the South functioned between 1785-1900. If you are interested in the topic, especially how gender and race affected church governance or how church discipline was carried out, then grab a copy of this book.
<| ||Wills's work is excellent, both in its scholarship and presentation.--Mississippi Quarterly||Wills has produced a splendid study that should long serve as a model of how to research and to write religious history.--Baptist History and Heritage

No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in...

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