Author: Bethel Baptist Church (Saint Clair County, Ill.)Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Bethel Baptist Church Minutes, 1806-1851
Author: Bethel Baptist Church (Saint Clair County, Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Bethel Church Minutes Reprinted from Record of Proceedings of the Bethel Church
Author: Cape Girardeau co. Bethel Baptist church (Mo)Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"Bethel Baptist Church, 1806, was the first permanent Protestant Church to be established west of the Mississippi. Its records are of special significance and interest in that they throw much light on the religious life, customs and conditions incident to pioneer times in early Missouri."--Preface, signed by A. Loyd Collins
Records of Bethel Baptist Church, Washington County, Kentucky, 1817-1875
Author: Bethel Baptist Church, Washington Co., KyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord
Author: John B. BolesPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813160316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion and were baptized together, were subject to the same church discipline, and were buried in the same cemeteries. What was the black perception of white-controlled religious ceremonies? How did whites reconcile their faith with their racism? Why did freedmen, as soon as possible after the Civil War, withdraw from the biracial churches and establish black denominations? This book is essential reading for historians of religion, the South, and the Afro-American experience.
The People and Their Peace
Author: Laura F. EdwardsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social order and its patriarchal hierarchies. Ordinary people, rather than legal professionals and political leaders, were central to its workings. Those without rights--even slaves--had influence within the system because of their positions of subordination, not in spite of them. By the 1830s, however, state leaders had secured support for a more centralized system that excluded people who were not specifically granted individual rights, including women, African Americans, and the poor. Edwards concludes that the emphasis on rights affirmed and restructured existing patriarchal inequalities, giving them new life within state law with implications that affected all Americans. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, The People and Their Peace recasts traditional narratives of legal and political change and sheds light on key issues in U.S. history, including the persistence of inequality--particularly slavery--in the face of expanding democracy.
Evangelizing the South
Author: Monica NajarPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190294817
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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.
Inventory of the Church Archives of New Jersey
Author: New Jersey Historical Records Survey ProjectPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Detroit
Author: Bentley Historical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Inventory of the Church Archives of New Jersey
Author: Vale of Tears
Author: Edward J. BlumPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865549623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Vale of Tears: New Essays in Religion and Reconstruction offers a window into the exciting work being done by historians, social scientists, and scholars of religious studies on the epoch of Reconstruction. A time of both peril and promise, Reconstruction in America became a cauldron of transformation and change. This collection argues that religion provided the idiom and symbol, as often the very substance, of those changes. The authors of this collection examine how African Americans and white Southerners, New England Abolitionists and former Confederate soldiers, Catholics and Protestants on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line brought their sense of the sacred into collaboration and conflict. Together, these essays mark an important new departure in a still-contested period of American history. Interdisciplinary in scope and content, it promises to challenge many of the traditional parameters of Reconstruction historiography. The range of contributors to the project, including Gaines Foster and Paul Harvey, will draw a great deal of attention from Southern historians, literary scholars, and scholars of American religion.