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Lemons, J. Stanley,

Retracing Baptists in Rhode Island : identity, formation, and history / J. Stanley Lemons. - 1 online resource (viii, 736 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Full Blurbs, Title Page, Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Awakenings -- 1. Baptist Beginnings -- 2. Sixes & Sevens and Musical Discord -- 3. The Rise of the Regular Baptists -- 4. Calvinism Challenged -- Part II. Transformations -- 5. The Freewill Baptists -- 6. Contested Ground -- 7. Missions and Sunday Schools -- 8. Trials and Tribulations -- Part III. Divisions -- 9. Freemasons and Dorrites -- 10. Slavery, Race, and Antislavery -- 11. Rum, Romanism, and Americanization -- 12. Brown University and the Baptists -- 13. Wars of Religion Part IV. Remakings -- 14. Revivals and Revivalists -- 15. The Daughters of Eve and the Better Half -- 16. Tides of Change -- 17. The Changing Mainline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"A comprehensive history of Rhode Island Baptists that contests the primacy of Southern preeminence for American Baptist developments"--

ISBN: 9781481309943 1481309943 9781481310390 1481310399 9781481310383 1481310380

LCCN: 2019980399

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Baptists--History.--Rhode Island
Baptistes--Histoire.--Rhode Island
Baptists

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Rhode Island

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History

LC Class. No.: BX6248.R4 / L46 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 286/.1745