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082 0 4 _a286.0973
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLindman, Janet Moore
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBodies of Belief :
_bBaptist Community in Early America /
_cJanet Moore Lindman.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.) :
_b2 illus.
336 _atext
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490 0 _aEarly American Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: A New People of God --
_tChapter 1. "Little Tabernacles in the Wilderness": Baptists in Colonial Pennsylvania --
_tChapter 2. "Sons and Daughters of Zion": Baptists in Colonial Virginia --
_tChapter 3. "A Heaven-Born Stroke": Evangelical Conversion --
_tChapter 4. "Putting on Christianity": Ritual Practice --
_tChapter 5. "Holy Walking and Conversation": Church Discipline --
_tChapter 6. Sisters in Christ: Gender and Spirituality --
_tChapter 7. Free People in the Lord: Race and Religion --
_tChapter 8. The Manly Christian: Evangelical White Manhood --
_tConclusion: Baptists in the Early Republic --
_tAppendix. Partial List of Baptist Ministers in the Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake, 1689-1830 --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 4 _aReligious Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
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653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
653 _aReligion.
653 _aReligious Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206760
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812206760
856 4 2 _3Cover
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