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

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 286
• Soggetto topico: Baptists; Identification (Religion)
• Altri autori: HarperKeith <1957->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Through a glass darkly
• ISBN: 0-8173-8614-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815343703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religion & American Culture