Bodies of belief : Baptist community in early America Janet Moore Lindman

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.

North America--Church history.

North America.

Physical Description:

270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

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 (p. [195]-256) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line: Baptism in the Schuylkill River, from Morgan Edwards' Materials Toward a History of Baptists in Pennsylvania, 1770 (AM 1770 HSP in LCP)

ISBN:

0812241142 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780812241143 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

213466189