Bodies of belief [electronic resource] : Baptist community in early America / Janet Moore Lindman.

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.