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Author Wills, Gregory A

Title Democratic religion : freedom, authority, and church discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 / Gregory A. Wills
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages)
Series Religion in America series
Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Contents Introduction: Religious Authority and the Democratic Impulse -- Democratic Exclusivism -- Democracies Primitive and Pure -- Democratic Authority -- Democracy, Race, and Gender -- African-American Democracies -- Freedom, Authority, and Doctrine -- Associations, Creeds, and Calvinism -- Democratic Religion Transformed -- Conclusion
Summary No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideals than did the Baptists. Paradoxically no denomination wielded more religious authority than they did. Wills looks at these two rival strains within the church
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-183) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Southern Baptist Convention -- Doctrines -- History
Southern Baptist Convention -- Discipline
SUBJECT Southern Baptist Convention. fast (OCoLC)fst00540277
Subject Baptists -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
Baptists -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Authority -- Religious aspects -- Baptists.
Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Baptists.
Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Baptists.
Authority -- Religious aspects -- Baptists.
Baptists.
Discipline.
Theology, Doctrinal.
SUBJECT Southern States -- Church history -- 18th century
Southern States -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject Southern States.
Genre/Form Church history.
History.
Form Electronic book