Research Catalog

Title

Primitive Baptists of the wiregrass south : 1815 to the present / John G. Crowley.

Author

Crowley, John G., 1955-

Publication

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xii, 244 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Between 1815 and 1848, Primitive Baptists emerged as a distinct, dominant religious group in the area of the deepest South known as the Wiregrass country. John Crowley, a historian and former Primitive minister, chronicles their origins and expansion into South Georgia and Florida, documenting one of the strongest aspects of the inner life of the local piney-woods culture.
• He navigates the history of this denomination through the twentieth century and the emergence of at least twenty mutually exclusive factions of Primitive Baptists in this specific region of the Deep South.

Subject

• Primitive Baptists > Georgia > History
• Primitive Baptists > Florida > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-234) and index.

Contents

1. "The Rock Whence Ye Are Hewn": Origins of Southern Primitive Baptist Doctrine and Practice -- 2. "This Wilderness Counterey": The Baptist Expansion into South Georgia and Florida -- 3. "Under the Dropings of the Sanctuary": Worship and Discipline -- 4. "Always Primitive": The Missionary Controversy -- 5. "Wars and Rumors of Wars": The Civil War Era -- 6. "How Are the Mighty Fallen": The Post-Civil War Era -- 7. "Contentions Among You": The Crawfordites, Jackites, Battleites, and Coonites -- 8. "Seeking the Old Paths": The Progressive and Peace Movements -- 9. "I Have Given You an Example": The Footwashing Controversy and Related Issues -- 10. "The Shadows of the Evening": 1945 to the Present -- Conclusion: The Good Part.

ISBN

0813016401 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98039624

OCLC

• 39695689
• ocm39695689

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries