| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 436 pages) : illustrations, map |
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text file |
| Contents |
Into the Valley -- The early camp meeting era -- Some denominational splinters -- Two new denominations -- Practices of local churches -- Government of the churches -- The Indians -- The Negroes -- Catholic expansion -- Media of education -- Reform and discipline -- The slavery problem before the 1840s -- Crises and divisions -- On the eve of the Civil War -- The balance sheet. |
| Summary |
In this first major study of religion in the South prior to the Civil War, Mr. Posey surveys the work of seven chief denominations -- Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ, Cumberland Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Episcopal -- as they developed in the present states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Missions -- Southern States.
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Missions. |
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Southern States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Posey Walter brownlow, 1900- Frontier mission. Lexington : University of Kentuky Press, 1966 (DLC) 66016229 |
| ISBN |
9780813164007 |
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0813164001 |
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9780813153933 |
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081315393X |
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