Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention

by Nancy Tatom Ammerman

Book Overview

Since 1979 Southern Baptists have been noisily struggling to agree on symbols, beliefs, and practices as they attempt to make sense of their changing social world. Nancy Ammerman has carefully documented their struggle. She tells the story of the Baptist reversal from a moderate to a fundamentalist outlook and speculates on the future of the denomination.

Ammerman places change among the Southern Baptists in the context of the cultural and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813515572
• ISBN13: 9780813515571
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"