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John Leland : a Jeffersonian Baptist in early America / Eric C. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Eric C. (Eric Coleman), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baptists.
- Baptists--Clergy.
- Baptists--Clergy--Biography.
- United States--Religion--To 1800.
- United States.
- United States--Religion--19th century.
- Leland, John, 1754-1841.
- Leland, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- John Leland, the colorful Baptist itinerant, was one of the most important and fascinating religious figures in early America. He is best remembered for delivering a 1,200-pound 'Mammoth Cheese' to Thomas Jefferson's White House, and for negotiating the inclusion of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution with James Madison. But Leland was also a tireless revivalist and a dogged advocate of religious freedom for all, an anti-slavery spokesman and unofficial Democratic Party whip, a defender of popular Calvinism and promoter of extreme religious individualism among Baptists. Eric C. Smith explores these and other major themes in this biography of John Leland, whose story provides a unique window into the remarkable transformations that swept American society from 1760 to 1840.
- Contents:
- "High-flying, separate new light" : the forging of an individualist
- "Young and roving" : itinerating in Virginia
- "Religion is a matter between God and individuals" : the rights of conscience
- "A bow too great for my stiff neck" : resisting the Baptist Church
- "I dare not pull up stakes" : the persistence of populist Calvinism
- "A very prince among democrats" : Baptist preacher, party whip
- "Consistent with the principles of good policy" : a long journey with slavery
- "In the tub of diogenes" : evangelical contrarian
- "Awakened in a new world" : a Baptist Rip Van Winkle.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-760669-5
- 0-19-760670-9
- 0-19-760668-7
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