Baptists in America

Leonard, Bill.

Baptists in America [electronic resource] / Bill J. Leonard. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2005. - x, 316 p. : ill. - Columbia contemporary American religion series . - Columbia contemporary American religion series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-286) and index.

Baptist beginnings -- Baptists in the twentieth century -- Baptist beliefs and practices -- Baptist groups : denominations, subdenominations, and churches -- Bible, ordinances, and polity : debates and divisions -- Baptists and religious liberty : citizenship and freedom -- Ethnicity and race in Baptist churches -- Women in Baptist life -- Baptists and American culture : in the world but not of it.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Baptists--History.--United States


United States--Church history.


Electronic books.

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