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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perry, Jeffrey Thomas, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ecclesiastical courts.
Church and state.
Baptists > Discipline.
Église et État > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Baptistes > États-Unis > Discipline > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Tribunaux ecclesiastiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Faith-based dispute resolution > Kentucky > History > 19th century.
Church and state > United States > History > 19th century.
Baptists > United States > Discipline > History > 19th century.
Baptists > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History > 19th century.
Ecclesiastical courts > United States > History > 19th century.
Faith-based dispute resolution > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
Kentucky.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse > 19e siecle.
United States > Church history > 19th century.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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