Southern Baptist Politics: Authority and Power in the Restructuring of an American Denomination

by Arthur Emery Farnsley and Arthur Emery Farnsley II

Book Overview

Unlike other recent studies of the Southern Baptists, Southern Baptist Politics was written after the culmination of the "Baptist battles" of the 1980s, when Fundamentalists had effectively taken control of the denomination. It also considers the SBC not simply as a denomination but as an organization with characteristics similar to other voluntary associations in American society--an approach that promises to be useful for the study of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271034238
• ISBN13: 9780271034232
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"