Politics and Piety: Baptist Social Reform in America, 1770-1860

by Aaron Menikoff

Book Overview

Historians have painted a picture of nineteenth-century Baptists huddled in clapboard meetinghouses preaching sermons and singing hymns, seemingly unaware of the wider world. According to this view, Baptists were ""so heavenly-minded, they were of no earthly good."" Overlooked are the illustrative stories of Baptists fighting poverty, promoting abolition, petitioning Congress, and debating tax policy. Politics and Piety is a careful look at antebellum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625641893
• ISBN13: 9781625641892
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"