Law in American Meetinghouses
Law in American Meetinghouses
Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780-1845
Perry, Jeffrey Thomas
Johns Hopkins University Press
04/2022
224
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9781421443072
15 a 20 dias
454
Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Want of Discipline": Baptist Churches and Local Law in Frontier Kentucky
Chapter 2. Churches' "Perplexing Difficulties": Race, Gender, and Household Relations
Chapter 3. A "Habitation of Justice?": The Market Revolution and the Search for Dispassionate Arbitration
Chapter 4. "The Putrid Carnage of Contention": Religious Insurgency and Church Authority
Chapter 5. "A Great Curse to the Neighborhood": Church Property Disputes and State Authority
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Want of Discipline": Baptist Churches and Local Law in Frontier Kentucky
Chapter 2. Churches' "Perplexing Difficulties": Race, Gender, and Household Relations
Chapter 3. A "Habitation of Justice?": The Market Revolution and the Search for Dispassionate Arbitration
Chapter 4. "The Putrid Carnage of Contention": Religious Insurgency and Church Authority
Chapter 5. "A Great Curse to the Neighborhood": Church Property Disputes and State Authority
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Index