LEADER 03723nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910815343703321 005 20240516222823.0 010 $a0-8173-8614-9 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046510 035 $a(EBL)997592 035 $a(OCoLC)812541944 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000602974 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12228476 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000602974 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10570533 035 $a(PQKB)10180207 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC997592 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27133 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL997592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10603460 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046510 100 $a20120227d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aThrough a glass darkly$b[electronic resource] $econtested notions of Baptist identity /$fedited by Keith Harper 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (344 p.) 225 0 $aReligion and American culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-5712-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a6. 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 327 $a10. 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 330 $a Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect. In contemporary discussions of religious denominations, it is often fashionable and easy to make bold claims regarding the history, beliefs, and practices of certain groups. Select versions of Baptist history have been used to vindicate incomplete or inaccurate assertions, attitudes, and features of Baptist life and thought. Historical figures quickly be 410 0$aReligion & American Culture 606 $aBaptists 606 $aIdentification (Religion) 615 0$aBaptists. 615 0$aIdentification (Religion) 676 $a286 701 $aHarper$b Keith$f1957-$01699316 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815343703321 996 $aThrough a glass darkly$94081467 997 $aUNINA