| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 736 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"A comprehensive history of Rhode Island Baptists that contests the primacy of Southern preeminence for American Baptist developments"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Full Blurbs, Title Page, Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Awakenings -- 1. Baptist Beginnings -- 2. Sixes & Sevens and Musical Discord -- 3. The Rise of the Regular Baptists -- 4. Calvinism Challenged -- Part II. Transformations -- 5. The Freewill Baptists -- 6. Contested Ground -- 7. Missions and Sunday Schools -- 8. Trials and Tribulations -- Part III. Divisions -- 9. Freemasons and Dorrites -- 10. Slavery, Race, and Antislavery -- 11. Rum, Romanism, and Americanization -- 12. Brown University and the Baptists -- 13. Wars of Religion |
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Part IV. Remakings -- 14. Revivals and Revivalists -- 15. The Daughters of Eve and the Better Half -- 16. Tides of Change -- 17. The Changing Mainline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Baptists -- Rhode Island -- History.
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Baptists |
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Rhode Island |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lemons, J. Stanley. Retracing Baptists in Rhode Island. Waco : Baylor University Press, 2019 9781481309936 (DLC) 2018058132 |
| ISBN |
9781481309943 (electronic book) |
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1481309943 (electronic book) |
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9781481310390 (electronic book) |
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1481310399 (electronic book) |
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9781481310383 (kindle edition) |
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1481310380 |
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9781481309936 (paperback) |
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