1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463940803321

Autore

Kidd Thomas S.

Titolo

Baptists in America : a history / / Thomas S. Kidd, Barry Hankins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-997755-0

0-19-997754-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

286.0973

Soggetti

Baptists - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Baptists in America; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Colonial Outlaws; 2 The Great Awakening; 3 Baptists and the American Revolution; 4 Baptists and Disestablishment; 5 Baptists and the Great Revival; 6 Baptists and Slavery; 7 Slavery, Schism, and War; 8 Black Baptists in Babylon; 9 White Baptists and the American Mainstream; 10 Baptist Schism in the Early Twentieth Century; 11 Insiders and Outsiders at Mid-Twentieth Century; 12 Baptists and the Civil Rights Movement; 13 Schism in Zion: The Southern Baptist Controversy; 14 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography

Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Puritans called Baptists ""the troublers of churches in all places"" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from megachurches to publishing houses to charities to mission organizations, and have firmly established themselves in the mainstream of American culture. Yet the historical legacy of outsider status lingers, and the inherently fractured nature of their faith makes Baptists ever wary of threats from within as