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Law in American meetinghouses : church discipline and civil authority in Kentucky, 1780-1845
Title
Law in American meetinghouses : church discipline and civil authority in Kentucky, 1780-1845 / Jeffrey Thomas Perry.
ISBN
9781421443072
1421443074
9781421443089
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
208 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
Based on author's thesis (doctoral-Purdue University, 2015) issued under title: Protectors of the peace : Baptist church tribunals and the construction of American religious and civil authority, 1780-1860.
Summary
"A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
ebook version :
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 14, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"The want of discipline" : Baptist Churches and local law in frontier Kentucky
Churches' "perplexing difficulties" : race, gender, and household relations
A "habitation of justice?" : the market revolution and the search for dispassionate arbitration
"The putrid carnage of contention" : religious insurgency and church authority
"A great curse to the neighborhood " : church property disputes and state authority
Conclusion.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Church history.
History.
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