Law in American Meetinghouses : Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780-1845 /
Ultimately, it highlights an oft-forgotten way that Americans subtly repositioned religious institutions alongside state authority.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2022.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.