Bodies of belief

Lindman, Janet Moore.

Bodies of belief Baptist community in early America / [electronic resource] : Janet Moore Lindman. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008. - 270 p. : ill., maps. - Early American studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A new people of God -- "Little tabernacles in the wilderness": Baptists in colonial Pennsylvania -- "Sons and daughters in zion": Baptists in colonial Virginia -- "A heaven-born stroke": evangelical conversion -- "Putting on Christianity": ritual practice -- "Holy walking and conversation": church discipline -- Sisters in Christ: gender and spirituality -- Free people in the Lord: race and religion -- The manly Christian: evangelical white manhood -- Conclusion: Baptists in the early republic -- Appendix: Baptist ministers in the Delaware Valley and Chesapeake.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Baptists--History.--North America
Human body--Religious aspects--Baptists--History of doctrines.
Human body--Social aspects--History.--North America


North America--Church history.


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