Democratic Religion by Gregory A. Wills
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Description No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideals than did the Baptists. Yet no denomination wielded religious authority more effectively than they did. Wills traces this dichotomy to two rival strains within the Baptist church - moderates and fundamentalists.
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No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand churchmembers in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churchesin contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.
Author Biography
Gregory A. Wills is at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Details ISBN 0195104129 ISBN-13 9780195104127 Title Democratic Religion Author Gregory A. Wills Format Hardcover Year 1997 Pages 208 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:137020562; About Us
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