Author: Baptist General Association of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the Baptist General Association of Virginia
Author: Baptist General Association of VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Evangelizing the South
Author: Monica NajarPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195309006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Although many refer to the American South as the "Bible Belt", the region was not always characterized by a powerful religious culture. In the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, religion-in terms both of church membership and personal piety-was virtually absent from southern culture. The late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, however, witnessed the astonishingly rapid rise of evangelical religion in the Upper South. Within just a few years, evangelicals had spread their beliefs and their fervor, gaining converts and building churches throughout Virginia and North Carolina and into the western regions. But what was it that made evangelicalism so attractive to a region previously uninterested in religion?Monica Najar argues that early evangelicals successfully negotiated the various challenges of the eighteenth-century landscape by creating churches that functioned as civil as well as religious bodies. The evangelical church of the late eighteenth century was the cornerstone of its community, regulating marriages, monitoring prices, arbitrating business, and settling disputes. As the era experienced substantial rifts in the relationship between church and state, the disestablishment of colonial churches paved the way for new formulations of church-state relations. The evangelical churches were well-positioned to provide guidance in uncertain times, and their multiple functions allowed them to reshape many of the central elements of authority in southern society. They assisted in reformulating the lines between the "religious" and "secular" realms, with significant consequences for both religion and the emerging nation-state.Touching on the creation of a distinctive southern culture, the position of women in the private and public arenas, family life in the Old South, the relationship between religion and slavery, and the political culture of the early republic, Najar reveals the history behind a religious heritage that remains a distinguishing mark of American society.
Annual Session ...
Author: Minutes of the ... Annual Meeting of the General Association of United Baptists of Missouri
Author: Baptist General Association of MissouriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Minutes of the Annual Meeting
Author: Women's Baptist Home Mission SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
God's Almost Chosen Peoples
Author: George C. RablePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Li
Inventory of the Church Archives of North Carolina
Author: Minutes of the ... Annual Session
Author: Daviess County Baptist Association (Ky.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Minutes of the ... Annual Meeting of Salem Association of Regular Baptists
Author: Salem Association of Regular Baptists (Ind.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Minutes of the Illinois Baptist Pastoral Union ... Annual Meeting ; Baptist General Association of Illinois ... Annual Meeting
Author: Illinois Baptist Pastoral UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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