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Bodies of belief : Baptist community in early America / Janet Moore Lindman.
LIBRA BX6233 .L56 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindman, Janet Moore.
- Series:
- Early American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baptists--North America--History.
- Baptists.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Baptists--History of doctrines.
- Human body.
- Human body--Social aspects--North America--History.
- Church history.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- History.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Baptists.
- North America--Church history.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: A new people of God
- "Little tabernacles in the wilderness" : Baptists in colonial Pennsylvania
- "Sons and daughters of Zion" : Baptists in colonial Virginia
- "A heaven-born stroke" : evangelical conversion
- "Putting on Christianity" : ritual practice
- "Holy walking and conversation" : church discipline
- Sisters in Christ : gender and spirituality
- Free people in the Lord : race and religion
- The manly Christian : evangelical white manhood
- Conclusion: Baptists in the early republic
- Appendix: Baptist ministers in the Delaware Valley and Chesapeake.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812241143
- 0812241142
- OCLC:
- 213466189
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