LEADER 04776nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910788514203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89768-7 010 $a0-8122-0676-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206760 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068546 035 $a(OCoLC)794702287 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642174 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631163 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11374026 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631163 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10608249 035 $a(PQKB)11564351 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17908 035 $a(DE-B1597)449309 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938906 035 $a(OCoLC)979724281 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206760 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441839 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642174 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421018 035 $a(OCoLC)932312541 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441839 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068546 100 $a20080310d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBodies of belief$b[electronic resource] $eBaptist community in early America /$fJanet Moore Lindman 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American Studies 225 0$aEarly American studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2182-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThe American Baptist church originated in British North America as "little tabernacles in the wilderness," isolated seventeenth-century congregations that had grown into a mainstream denomination by the early nineteenth century. The common view of this transition casts these evangelicals as radicals who were on society's fringe during the colonial period, only to become conservative by the nineteenth century after they had achieved social acceptance. In Bodies of Belief, Janet Moore Lindman challenges this accepted, if oversimplified, characterization of early American Baptists by arguing that they struggled with issues of equity and power within the church during the colonial period, and that evangelical religion was both radical and conservative from its beginning.Bodies of Belief traces the paradoxical evolution of the Baptist religion, including the struggles of early settlement and church building, the varieties of theology and worship, and the multivalent meaning of conversation, ritual, and godly community. Lindman demonstrates how the body-both individual bodies and the collective body of believers-was central to the Baptist definition and maintenance of faith. The Baptist religion galvanized believers through a visceral transformation of religious conversion, which was then maintained through ritual. Yet the Baptist body was differentiated by race and gender. Although all believers were spiritual equals, white men remained at the top of a rigid church hierarchy. Drawing on church books, associational records, diaries, letters, sermon notes, ministerial accounts, and early histories from the mid-Atlantic and the Chesapeake as well as New England, this innovative study of early American religion asserts that the Baptist religion was predicated simultaneously on a radical spiritual ethos and a conservative social outlook. 606 $aBaptists$zNorth America$xHistory 606 $aHuman body$xReligious aspects$xBaptists$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zNorth America$xHistory 607 $aNorth America$xChurch history 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aBaptists$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman body$xReligious aspects$xBaptists$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 676 $a286.0973 700 $aLindman$b Janet Moore$01570917 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788514203321 996 $aBodies of belief$93844897 997 $aUNINA