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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815343703321

Titolo

Through a glass darkly [[electronic resource] ] : contested notions of Baptist identity / / edited by Keith Harper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8173-8614-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Religion and American culture

Altri autori (Persone)

HarperKeith <1957->

Disciplina

286

Soggetti

Baptists

Identification (Religion)

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Key Themes; 1. Baptists, Church, and State: Rejecting Establishments, Relishing Privilege - Bill J. Leonard; 2. Democratic Religion Revisited: Early Baptists in the American South - Jewel L. Spangler; Part II. Biography; 3. Persecution and Polemics: Baptists and the Shaping of the Roger Williams Tradition in the Nineteenth Century - James P. Byrd; 4. E. Y. Mullins and the Siren Songs of Modernity - Curtis W. Freeman; 5. The Contested Legacy of Lottie Moon: Southern Baptists, Women, and Partisan Protestantism - Elizabeth H. Flowers

6. Walter Rauschenbusch and the Second Coming: The Social Gospel as Baptist History - Christopher H. Evans7. "I Am Fundamentally a Clergyman, a Baptist Preacher":  Martin Luther King Jr., Social Christianity, and the Baptist Faith in an Era of Civil Rights - Edward R. Crowther; Part III. Historiography; 8. "Written that Ye May Believe": Primitive Baptist Historiography - John G. Crowley; 9. Reframing the Past: The Impact of Institutional and Ideological Agendas on Modern Interpretations of Landmarkism - James A. Patterson

10. Is There a River?: Black Baptists, the Uses of History, and the Long History of the Freedom Movement - Paul Harvey11. Symbolic History in the Cold War Era - Alan Scot Willis; 12. Southern Baptists and the F-Word: A Historiography of the Southern Baptist Convention Controversy and What It Might Mean - Barry Hankins; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue



that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.    In contemporary discussions of religious denominations, it is often fashionable and easy to make bold claims regarding the history, beliefs, and practices of certain groups. Select versions of Baptist history have been used to vindicate incomplete or inaccurate assertions, attitudes, and features of Baptist life and thought. Historical figures quickly be