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Strangers Below Primitive Baptists and American Culture

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Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faith's future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand. This book tells the story of how a band of antimissionary and antirevivalistic Baptists defended Calvinism, America's oldest Protestant creed, from what they feared were the unbridled forces of evangelical greed and power.

Title Strangers Below Primitive Baptists and American Culture / Joshua Guthman.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacture Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Who are the Primitive Baptists? -- Doubts still assail me -- Filthy lucre, hired nurses, and the suckling preacher -- Rocking Daniel -- The lonesome sound.
Extent 1 online resource (232 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©[2015]
National Library system number 997010718266005171
MARC RECORDS
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