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Law in American meetinghouses : church discipline and civil authority in Kentucky, 1780-1845 / Jeffrey T. Perry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Jeffrey Thomas, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faith-based dispute resolution--United States--History--19th century.
- Faith-based dispute resolution.
- Ecclesiastical courts--United States--History--19th century.
- Ecclesiastical courts.
- Baptists--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History--19th century.
- Baptists.
- Church and state.
- History.
- Discipline.
- United States--Church history--19th century.
- United States.
- Church history.
- Baptists--United States--Discipline--History--19th century.
- Church and state--United States--History--19th century.
- Faith-based dispute resolution--Kentucky--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- "The want of discipline" : Baptist Churches and local law in frontier Kentucky
- Churches' "perplexing difficulties" : race, gender, and household relations
- A "habitation of justice?" : the market revolution and the search for dispassionate arbitration
- "The putrid carnage of contention" : religious insurgency and church authority
- "A great curse to the neighborhood " : church property disputes and state authority
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral-Purdue University, 2015) issued under title: Protectors of the peace : Baptist church tribunals and the construction of American religious and civil authority, 1780-1860.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781421443089
- 1421443082
- Publisher Number:
- 40030926892
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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