TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lindman,Janet Moore
TI  - Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America 
T2  - Early American Studies
SN  - 9780812221824
AV  - BX6233 ǂb L56 2008eb 
U1  - 286.0973 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American History
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Religion
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: A New People of God --; Chapter 1. "Little Tabernacles in the Wilderness": Baptists in Colonial Pennsylvania --; Chapter 2. "Sons and Daughters of Zion": Baptists in Colonial Virginia --; Chapter 3. "A Heaven-Born Stroke": Evangelical Conversion --; Chapter 4. "Putting on Christianity": Ritual Practice --; Chapter 5. "Holy Walking and Conversation": Church Discipline --; Chapter 6. Sisters in Christ: Gender and Spirituality --; Chapter 7. Free People in the Lord: Race and Religion --; Chapter 8. The Manly Christian: Evangelical White Manhood --; Conclusion: Baptists in the Early Republic --; Appendix. Partial List of Baptist Ministers in the Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake, 1689-1830 --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The American Baptist church originated in British North America as "little tabernacles in the wilderness," isolated seventeenth-century congregations that had grown into a mainstream denomination by the early nineteenth century. The common view of this transition casts these evangelicals as radicals who were on society's fringe during the colonial period, only to become conservative by the nineteenth century after they had achieved social acceptance. In Bodies of Belief, Janet Moore Lindman challenges this accepted, if oversimplified, characterization of early American Baptists by arguing that they struggled with issues of equity and power within the church during the colonial period, and that evangelical religion was both radical and conservative from its beginning.Bodies of Belief traces the paradoxical evolution of the Baptist religion, including the struggles of early settlement and church building, the varieties of theology and worship, and the multivalent meaning of conversation, ritual, and godly community. Lindman demonstrates how the body-both individual bodies and the collective body of believers-was central to the Baptist definition and maintenance of faith. The Baptist religion galvanized believers through a visceral transformation of religious conversion, which was then maintained through ritual. Yet the Baptist body was differentiated by race and gender. Although all believers were spiritual equals, white men remained at the top of a rigid church hierarchy. Drawing on church books, associational records, diaries, letters, sermon notes, ministerial accounts, and early histories from the mid-Atlantic and the Chesapeake as well as New England, this innovative study of early American religion asserts that the Baptist religion was predicated simultaneously on a radical spiritual ethos and a conservative social outlook
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206760
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812206760
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