Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America
- ISBN-10
- 0812221826
- ISBN-13
- 9780812221824
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-22
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Janet Lindman
Description
Bodies of Belief argues that the paradoxical evolution of the Baptist religion, specifically in Pennsylvania and Virginia, was simultaneously egalitarian and hierarchical, democratic and conservative.
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