Kniha Democratic Religion Gregory A. Wills

Democratic Religion

Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2003
Stránek
208
EAN
9780195160994
ISBN
0195160991
Enbook ID
04515925
Hmotnost
1006
Rozměry
173 x 240 x 30

Kompletní popis

No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality-a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.

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